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78 lines
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date: 2011-11-25
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tags:
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- git
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- games
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title: Syncing Minecraft Saves with Git
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---
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I've been playing Minecraft for a while and after doing some travelling, I've
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ran into the issue where I'd like to syncronize my Minecraft saves across
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computers.
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---
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I already use git for software version control, so why not shoehorn Minecraft
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into it? Not only would I get easy syncronization, I would also get version
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control so if I seriously mung something up, I can revert back to a previous
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save! Here's how I did it.
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First, I had to make sure git was installed on all of my machines. Luckily
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on Linux git is usually provided in the package repository (git-core), but
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since my desktop also runs Windows (for gaming), I use
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[msysgit](http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/). For example,
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on Debian/Ubuntu all you need to do is:
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```
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sudo apt-get install git-core
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```
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Once git was installed, I decided to go with a centralized approach since I
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want one 'official' spot where I can push and pull my Mincraft saves to.
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I already have a server
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from the wonderful folks at [Linode](http://linode.com), so I just
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initialized a bare (centralized) repository on there:
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```
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cd /path/to/repos/minecraft
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git init --bare
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```
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Then, since I already have Minecraft installed on my desktop with quite a few
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saves, I had to clone the central repository, add my saves, commit, and then
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push back to the central repository.
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```
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cd /home/nick/.minecraft/
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git clone nick@nickpegg.com:/path/to/repos/minecraft temp
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mv temp/.git ./
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```
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Since you can't clone a repository into a non-empty folder, I had to clone it
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to a temporary folder and then copy the .git folder from there into my
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.minecraft folder. Now that my local repository was setup, I added the files
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I wanted to syncronize.
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```
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git add saves screenshots stats texturepacks options.txt servers.dat
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git commit -m 'Initial commit'
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```
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Once I had the files commited, all I needed to do was push them up to the
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central repository on my server.
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```
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git push
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```
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And now I have my Minecraft files in a central spot! Now every time I'm done
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playing a bit, all I have to do to sync my files up is:
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```
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git commit -a -m 'Played a bit'
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git push
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```
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Now, on other machines, all I need to do is clone once, ``git pull``
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before playing,
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and then commit and push when I'm done playing!
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Easy peasy. Of course, you can do more fancy things with git since it's a
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full-blown version control system. If you feel inlined to play with those
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features, go read some [documentation](http://gitref.org/).
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