GIT: Working with a (local) remote repository

You now create a local bare repository based on your existing Git repository. In order to simplify the examples, the Git repository is hosted locally in the filesystem and not on a server in the Internet.

Afterwards you pull from and push to your bare repository to synchronize changes between your repositories.

12.1. Create a bare Git repository via the clone operation

Execute the following commands to create a bare repository based on your existing Git repository.

# switch to the first repository
cd ~/repo01

# create a new bare repository by cloning the first one
git clone --bare . ../remote-repository.git

# check the content of the git repo, it is similar
# to the .git directory in repo01
# files might be packed in the bare repository

ls ~/remote-repository.git

12.2. Exercise: Clone your bare repository

Clone your bare repository and checkout a working tree in a new directory via the following commands.

# switch to home
cd ~
# make new directory
mkdir repo02

# switch to new directory
cd ~/repo02
# clone
git clone ../remote-repository.git .

12.3. Exercise: Using the push command

Make some changes in one of your non-bare local repositories and push them to your bare repository via the following commands.

# make some changes in the first repository
cd ~/repo01

# make some changes in the file
echo "Hello, hello. Turn your radio on" > test01
echo "Bye, bye. Turn your radio off" > test02

# commit the changes, -a will commit changes for modified files
# but will not add automatically new files
git commit -a -m "Some changes"

# push the changes
git push ../remote-repository.git

12.4. Exercise: Using the pull command

To test the git pull in your example Git repositories, switch to other non-bare local repository. Pull in the recent changes from the remote repository. Afterwards make some changes and push them again to your remote repository.

# switch to second directory
cd ~/repo02

# pull in the latest changes of your remote repository
git pull

# make changes
echo "A change" > test01

# commit the changes
git commit -a -m "A change"

# push changes to remote repository
# origin is automatically created as we cloned original from this repository
git push origin

You can pull in the changes in your first example repository with the following commands.

# switch to the first repository and pull in the changes
cd ~/repo01

git pull ../remote-repository.git/

# check the changes
git status