The tarballs in this repository are generated from repos fetched with "git clone --mirror" and then updated with "git remote update". The repositories can be pushed to a new home when unpacked by executing "git push --mirror git@example.com/new-location.git". To use a repository locally, download a file and then clone from the extracted folder to a new local repository, see example below. wget https://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/freenet/repositories/fred-2019-10-30.tar.xz tar xvf fred-2019-10-30.tar.xz git clone fred.git fred-local After the sequence above has been executed, one should have a normal git repository called "fred-local" cloned from the mirror extracted from the tarball.