Question

I am working on an iOS project. I just created a local repo for my project on Mac. Due to some reasons, I have to transfer it to a windows machine to place it a shared folder. I do not have access to that shared drive from my Mac.

How do I proceed with creating a repo that can be shared? I am at a point where I have all my code committed in local repo. Please advice..

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

You have a few possibilities:

• Just copy the repo to a USB key or external disc, and then transfer to the PC. Git repos can always be transferred, you do not need to do anything special: the on-disk format is always the same. Although you may encounter some issues with file encoding (Windows or UTF-8): it would be good to configure both gits to use UTF-8. Optionally you can zip your repo folder and unzip it on the PC.
• Upload to dropbox or similar file transfer service. Same as above.
• Share the code on github or a similar public git service. This is by far the best option, although (if the code is not under an open source license) it may cost you money. Upload to github, download from the PC.

Hope this helps.