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WinWin

Reputation: 7753

Where is the local repository located?

From Wikipedia:

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Where is said "Local repository" located physically (in the file system)?

Upvotes: 47

Views: 91105

Answers (5)

Uttam
Uttam

Reputation: 1

Uttams-MBP:project uttamgc$ ls -al

drwxr-xr-x 9 uttamgc staff 288 Sep 28 14:19 .git

In the example above, project is the folder or directory [mkdir] once this folder is created I move into project directory [cd project] then I git init from the folder and create .git subdirectory. [the third row with .git is the local repository]

Upvotes: 0

mayank kumar
mayank kumar

Reputation: 17

Working Directory is where your code resides on local machine. Git Local repo is .git/ which is generally inside the Working Directory. It contains HEAD and various useful info. You can have a look of what it contains:

cd .git 
ls -a

Upvotes: 1

wikp
wikp

Reputation: 1203

Working directory is your code directory

Local repository is .git folder in Working directory

Remote repository is bare repository on server or in the filesystem

Upvotes: 7

Oleksandr Pryimak
Oleksandr Pryimak

Reputation: 1581

.git is a place where local repository is stored (not the working directory!)

Working directory usually is a directory where the .git directory is placed

Upvotes: 4

Greg Hewgill
Greg Hewgill

Reputation: 994947

The Working Directory is wherever your files are on your local machine. The Local Repository is the .git/ subdirectory inside the Working Directory. The Index is a conceptual place that also physically resides in the .git/ subdirectory.

Upvotes: 49

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