How do I have to clone a repository for use with the "Git Integration Plugin for JIRA"

MartinS

What command do I have to use for the initial clone?

git clone --bare git@example.com:bla.git

or

git clone git@example.com:bla.git

?

The reason I am asking is that after some time, the clone gets really large (6.3 GB compared to about 600 MB for a freshly cloned bare repository), and git status

• takes a long time
• shows a lot of modified files

Is that expected? Do I have to work with bare repositories? Do I have to do a clean checkout from time to time? Do I have to clone with branches?

Andrey Levchenk1

Hello Martin

We are officially supporting Git Integration Plugin. As for you questions:

- both clone commands are supported

- bare clone makes sense for large repositories

- plugin fetches all available remote branches so no need to take care of that

- issue with modified files was fixed in version 1.2.11 (let me know which version of plugin you are using)

- as for clean checkout: yes making clean checkout makes plugin considerable faster. We are going to do it automatically in future versions of plugin.