Creating Git bundles

Another method to share the repository history between repositories is to use the git bundle command. A Git bundle is a series of commits that can work as a remote repository, but without having the full history of a repository included in the bundle.

Getting ready

We'll use a fresh clone of the offline-sharing repository as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/dvaske/offline-sharing.git
$ cd offline-sharing
$ git checkout master

How to do it...

First, we'll create a root bundle, as shown in the following command, so that the history in the bundle forms a complete history and the initial commit is also included:

$ git bundle create myrepo.bundle master
Counting objects: 12, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
Writing objects: 100% (12/12), 1.88 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 12 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)

We can verify the bundle content with git bundle verify:

$ git bundle verify myrepo.bundle
The bundle contains this...