Git将仓库迁移到另一台服务器

Question

I realize that this question has been asked several times. I went through almost all of those before asking it here.

I have a git repo on server A and want it to push on remote server B.

Steps i followed:

On server B:

    mkdir repo
    cd repo
    git init --bare
    ls
    branches  config  description  HEAD  hooks  info  objects  refs

On server A where my local repo is present.

cd localrepo
git remote add new-origin root@B:/root/repo
git push new-origin master
Counting objects: 12, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done.
Writing objects: 100% (12/12), 976 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 12 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
To root@172.16.189.221:/root/four
 * [new branch]      master -> master

Now when i check on server B. Cannot find the updated files. each time i update on localrepo on A and do a push to B. it updates the contents under objects folder in B but am unable to see the files.

Could anyone point me in the right direction :)

Answer 1

A bare repository does not contain a working tree. (That's why it is called bare.) Therefore you cannot see the files directly. (You see only those files, which live in .git on a non-bare repository.)

Use git ls-files to see which files are present. Use git log to see which commits are present.

To actually "move" the repository to another server I would simply use

git clone --mirror $original_url

on the new server.