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I have a OSX server with the Xcode service activated. The server hosts multiple git repositories, git is installed automatically by the service Xcode server.
I use Time Machine, but the problem is that I do not have the backup of each repository, but only a backup of the entire server.
Can I still see the repositories in the Time Machine backup, or is there some easier command in git that allows me to take backups?
Mattia Lancieri
Posted 2014-12-23T10:47:13.677
Reputation: 103
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When you open your Time Machine backup folder on the Time Machine volume, you can still see each individual directory, so wherever your Git repositories are stored as bare repos, you will be able to find and copy them.
You can also archive a Git repository with the git archive command.
git archive -o archive.zip master
If you want to do that for all branches, you could do something like:
for branch in $(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/heads/); do
git archive -o "${branch##*/}.zip" $branch
done
The substitution ${branch##*/} will convert refs/heads/master to master by stripping the longest match of */ from the beginning of the string.
This is inspired by a Stack Overflow question about iterating through branches.
slhck
Posted 2014-12-23T10:47:13.677
Reputation: 182 472
the variable $ branch includes the full path (ex: "refs/heads/master"), so I performed a substring git archive -o "${branch:11}.zip" $branch. I do not know if there is any better way .... – Mattia Lancieri – 2014-12-24T09:50:47.270
Ah, perhaps ${branch##*/} is what you want. See my updated post! – slhck – 2014-12-24T10:11:29.880
But if you open the Time Machine folder on the Time Machine drive, you can see all actual folders that were backed up from the server. You'll have access to each bare Git reposititory then, too, no? As for Git backups, see
– slhck – 2014-12-23T10:53:27.593git archive: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-archivegit archive looks perfect, thanks I tried it on the branch "master", but there is a way to run a zip for each branch? – Mattia Lancieri – 2014-12-23T12:48:25.230