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diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt index 16a6b0aceb..0417562eb7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ DESCRIPTION Some workflows require that one or more branches of development on one machine be replicated on another machine, but the two machines cannot -be directly connected, and therefore the interactive git protocols (git, +be directly connected, and therefore the interactive Git protocols (git, ssh, rsync, http) cannot be used. This command provides support for 'git fetch' and 'git pull' to operate by packaging objects and references in an archive at the originating machine, then importing those into @@ -112,13 +112,12 @@ machineA$ git bundle create file.bundle master machineA$ git tag -f lastR2bundle master ---------------- -Then you transfer file.bundle to the target machine B. If you are creating -the repository on machine B, then you can clone from the bundle as if it -were a remote repository instead of creating an empty repository and then -pulling or fetching objects from the bundle: +Then you transfer file.bundle to the target machine B. Because this +bundle does not require any existing object to be extracted, you can +create a new repository on machine B by cloning from it: ---------------- -machineB$ git clone /home/me/tmp/file.bundle R2 +machineB$ git clone -b master /home/me/tmp/file.bundle R2 ---------------- This will define a remote called "origin" in the resulting repository that |