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bob.sacamento
bob.sacamento

Reputation: 6651

How to use git bundle?

I am trying to figure out how to use git bundle. I have followed the instructions I have found on various web pages, but to no avail.

I have created a bundle, myrepo.bundle on one machine. I move it to another machine. I verify it, and it seems OK:

>$ git bundle verify myrepo.bundle                                                                                                                              
The bundle contains this ref:                                                                                                                                         
d318d27fff313dc12f28a2b405c8035028c829b1 HEAD                                                                                                                         
The bundle requires this ref:                                                                                                                                         
d7789429bd6daae1c85da0d6419892137a743142                                                                                                                              
myrepo.bundle is okay

Then I try to do a fetch, and all I get is an error I don't understand:

>$ git fetch ./myrepo.bundle master:central-master                                                                                                              
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref master

That required ref is definitely in the destination repo, BTW. And the bundle was created from the master branch of the source repo. Anyone see what I am doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 443

Answers (1)

jthill
jthill

Reputation: 60275

That bundle doesn't have anything but the HEAD ref. You get bundles like that when you make an incremental bundle from e.g. a tag checkout.

git fetch ./myrepo.bundle HEAD:refs/heads/central-master

if you're sure the bundled commit is what you think it is.

Upvotes: 1

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