GIT clone to external drive for backup

Question

We have GIT set up within our windows network (using msysgit & GitExtensions). We each have our own repositories and we push to a remote \'bare\' repository on one of o

Answer 1

You could always just schedule bash.exe mybashbackupscript.sh

Anyway, in windows terms:

rmdir F:\GitClone /s /q
mkdir -p F:\GitClone\Repo1
copy c:\GIT\Repo1\.git F:\GitClone\Repo1\.git

git clone doesn't really do anything fancier than that.

edit: as someone else pointed out, it's probably best to just make a new backup repo and just pull/fetch into that. You'll avoid any accesing issues with the .git :)