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copied!<p>It may be worth changing your backup policy to ignore backing up the whole Git repository and instead backup a <a href="http://git-scm.com/docs/git-bundle" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>Git bundle</code></a>. From <a href="http://git-scm.com/2010/03/10/bundles.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Git's Little Bundle of Joy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The bundle command will package up everything that would normally be pushed over the wire with a git push command into a binary file that you can email or sneakernet around, then unbundle into another repository.</p> </blockquote> <p>This approach is also discussed in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1251713/backup-of-github-repo">Backup of github repo</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2129214/backup-a-local-git-repository">Backup a Local Git Repository</a>.</p> <p>A quick test of a local repo reveals the following creates a single file that contains everything one would typically want in a full repo backup:</p> <pre><code>$ git bundle create ../my.bundle --all </code></pre> <p>Creating a clone from the bundle file is simply:</p> <pre><code>$ git clone my.bundle my-repo </code></pre> <p>Using <code>git ls-remote my.bundle</code> shows that all tags and branches are in the bundle.</p> <p>However, to backup things that are probably not in the bundle file (like configuration, hooks, grafts, alternates, etc.), I would take the backup a few steps further and backup the <a href="http://git-scm.com/docs/gitrepository-layout" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Git repository</a> (short the <code>objects</code>, <code>refs</code> and <code>logs</code> directories) and the bundle file (the contents of the <code>objects</code> and <code>refs</code> repository directories are in the bundle and not needed). Unless the bundle does contain these files; then you only need to backup the bundle.</p>

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