Moving a git repository

Question

This question may be dumb, but I\'ve been wondering it for a while. It\'s about git repositories, but I assume it\'s the same for local repositories for other DVCS\'.

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Answer 1

No, you wouldn't have to change anything else. That is

• assuming no scripts set GIT_DIR, GIT_WORKTREE or GIT_INDEX directly (unlikely)

• you have no external repositories pointing to this copy

  • if you do you'll have to repoint them by using

    git remote set-url [--push] origin user@yourhost:/home/user/newlocation/Project
    

(origin should be the name of the remote; origin is the default name when cloning from a remote repo)