From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: unpacking git files
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:33:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2004232032060.11363@panix1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200423170750.2f6355d3@bigbox.attlocal.net>
The file at issue is fahlib.git and is a library needed by the
foldingathome project to be installed locally. I have no idea of the
git file's contents yet.
On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:07:50
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: unpacking git files
>
> Tim here.
>
> I'm not sure what sort of "git file" you have. If it's a "bundle",
> you can pull from it as if it was an upstream project:
>
> git clone your_repo.bundle repo
>
> to create a local directory called "repo" and clone that bundle into
> it.
>
> If it's just a pack file from inside the .git/ folder from another
> repo, there's no telling what may or may not be in there (okay, one
> can spelunk in there, but you lose a lot of the metadata that is
> elswhere in the folder such as branch-heads/names, and any commits
> that weren't part of the pack-file)
>
> -tim
>
> On April 23, 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > If you download a git file how is it possible to have git unpack
> > the file for you into its own directory tree?
> > I failed to write my git credentials in braille and haven't used
> > them for a very long time so may be able to get a git file using
> > wget but for now I don't know how to unpack the file.
> >
> >
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