How do I pull from another computer's repository in Git?
If the machine you want to pull from is accessible via ssh
, you can add the repository on it as a remote via ssh, and then pull from it like you would any remote:
$ git remote add repo_b username@host:path/to/repository.git
$ git pull repo_b master
(You can skip the step of adding a remote and just specify the full URL in the git pull
command instead of a remote name, but if you're going to be pulling from the repository on a regular basis, adding it as a remote will save you lots of typing.)
Have a look at git pull --help
This would give something like git pull /my/other/repository
You can set up an actual server with git daemon. Otherwise, you can use git bundle, which bundles git's internal representation into a file that can be unbundled with git pull
at the other end.
E.g. from the git docs, bundling everything:
git bundle create file.bundle master
Then, on the other end, you can do something like:
git pull file.bundle HEAD