push vs. bundle vs. tar zcvf — to backup entire local .git

Question

I can backup my local .git by pushing it to a repository in two steps:

git push --all ~/gitrepo
git push --tags ~/gitrepo

I can back it up

Answer 1

I use Git bundle

git bundle create /tmp/backup.git --all --tags --remotes

You can receive it as if it were a repo:

cd myworktree
git pull /tmp/backup.git

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But also see

• How to update a git clone --mirror?
• "fetch --all" in a git bare repository doesn't synchronize local branches to the remote ones
• Git doesn't clone all branches on subsequent clones?

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Completeness, notes

For complete backup (thing of git-rerere cache, stashes, hooks, configuration files) I suggest using rsync

rsync -hxPavilyzH --stats --delete .git/ backup@remote:/repo/mirror.git/

Alternatively:

• Is it possible to push a git stash to a remote repository?
• copy the rerere cache directory