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:date: 2015 Aug 31
This program backups files and set of bare Git repositories into one Git repository.
This program backups files and set of **bare** Git repositories into one Git
repository. A bare repository is a repository that doesn't contain a working
directory.
Files are copied to blobs and then added to tree under certain place, and for
Git repositories, all reachable objects are pulled in with maintaining index
which remembers reference -> sha1 for all pulled repositories.
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Backup workflow is:
0. in case of some non-bare repositories:
$ git clone --bare nonbarerepo dir1
1. create backup repository::
$ mkdir backup
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$ git-backup pull dir1:prefix1 dir2:prefix2 ...
where dir1 and dir2 are relative or absolute path.
This will pull bare Git repositories & just files from `dir1` into backup
under `prefix1`, from `dir2` into backup prefix `prefix2`, etc...
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