Transferring changes made to multiple branches usi

Question

I was looking for git-bundles as an option to keep my 2 repositories (being continuously worked on) in sync with each other.

Since both are two different geographical locations and setting up a VPN is also not an option I plan to use bundles..(Any other better alternative or method? )

I stumbled upon Jefromi's answer here . It explains things very well.

However if I have multiple branches being worked on and I wanted to update them all, how do I do it?

(The answer uses basis for master but uses --branches that will copy the complete history of all other branches in bundle again. I want only updated/added commits of all braches)

Answer 1

You can create a new backup while excluding what was in the previous backup:

git fetch ../backup.bundle
git bundle create ../newbackup.bundle ^backup/A ^backup/B A B C

Here you create an incremental backup with incremental history for branches A and B, plus the new branch C.

You can see that approach detailed in "Incremental backups with git bundle, for all branches"

I prefer the simpler approach of using the date of the last backup:

cd myRepo
git bundle create mybundle-inc --since=10.days --all

It is ok to backup "a bit more": duplicate commits won't be imported twice when you will use that incremental backup.

I have made a script based on --since: save_bundles.