How to have synchronize two git bare repositories?

Question

Is possible to clone a git bare repo as a new bare repo ? for example:

• git init --bare mainRepo.git

Then in a remote server:

• git clone --bare xxx@server:/path/mainRepo.git repoReplica.git

And then with a cron job send changes from repoReplica.git to mainRepo.git, so I can have 2 teams working, one directly with mainRepo.git and the second with repoReplica.git

Is it possible ? and How ?

Answer 1

It is possible, but I would suggest for your synchronisation process to:

• not use cron
• use a post-receive hook which can then push what has been receive to the other repo
• limit the synchronization to one branch
• use different branches

Meaning:

• repo1 would push master to repo2 as master_fromrepo1

   git push repo2 master:master_fromrepo1 

• repo2 would push master to to repo1 as master_fromrepo2

   git push repo1 master:master_fromrepo2