Magic mirroring

[mdlbear]

I'm in the process of uploading my most recent take of "Someplace in the Net", along with enough version control information to make it possible for a collaborator (waves at cflute) to upload some additions. I'm almost certainly doing it wrong; possibly somebody more familiar with the git version-control system could tell me how to do what I really want to do.

I really only need to upload the last, good take and the git objects that correspond to it. What I did was clone the repository in my track directory and delete all the Audacity projects but the one I wanted to upload. That's fine, but it doesn't delete them all from the git repository. Normally you don't want it to, but in this case I really wanted to upload only the current state. That's 200MB of history I don't want to push up through my skinny little ADSL pipe.

For the moment, I punted: I deleted the cloned repository, and made myself a new one without the baggage. I suspect there's a way to do what I want using branches -- any git experts out there on my flist?

It's going to be even more fun going the other way, since there's no good way to give other people upload access to my ISP's shell account. Eventually it's going to have to go onto a server I have total control over, which realistically means the one hanging off my DSL line. For now, git has ways of packaging up a set of changes into a file; that'll work, but I'll have to document it.

Anything to avoid doing actual work...

Comments

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

I'd actually suggest Subversion for what you're doing.

[mdlbear]

There are several reasons for gaining more experience with git, some having to do with work. There's also the fact that it's a distributed VCS, so it's designed to deal with multiple repositories -- every working directory includes its own. That in turn is really nice in a situation where it takes a couple of hours to upload a tree.

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

Also, there's nothing wrong with having a private repository, and then only adding the ones you want to make public to the public repo.