How to backup a local Git repository?

Question

I am using git on a relatively small project and I find that zipping the .git directory\'s contents might be a fine way to back up the project. But this is kind of weird bec

Answer 1

You can backup the git repo with git-copy . git-copy saved new project as a bare repo, it means minimum storage cost.

git copy /path/to/project /backup/project.backup

Then you can restore your project with git clone

git clone /backup/project.backup project