Create a Git bundle and share it remotely

Question

I've created a bundle file of a private project of mine, and I would like to share it with someone. They ask me to provide the git bundle file generated.

Can I just email them the single bundle file? ...or do I need to attach the folder of the project itself as well?

Answer 1

Can I just email them the single bundle file?

Yep, that the point behind the bundle.
Its a full read-only repository.

Once you have the bundle you can share it.

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git bundle will only package references that are shown by git show-ref: this includes heads, tags, and remote heads.

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git bundle create ../reponame.bundle --all

--all- get all refs

This command creates bundle with all the source code and all other info like tags.

Even due that --all is not documented its much better to use it.

Note : --all would not include remote-tracking branches !!!