Question

I plan to install a basic git server. The point is to, somehow, centralize projects development.

However, the computer where I would like to do this isn’t that great. I have no more then a few gigabytes available.

Does this make sense?

• Each workstation will have their own git instalation and their own copy of project files.
• They connect to the repository server via ssh;
• The server will have only the repositoty information about the project.

Is this ok?

Edit:
– It can be server-less if possible. The main point is, however, to allow everyone (3 persons uhh) to work on the same project. I’m a bit lost here… 🙂

Answer 1

If you set a “central” git repository server, then that server will have bare repositories only (because of push restriction), meaning:

• not all the files
• but only a compressed version of all the history of those files.

The space taken by those bare repos isn’t that important if you are dealing with sources (text files).
But if you have, as a webapp designer, many binaries (mainly pictures), then you need to externalize them in another storage, while keeping your git repos in your central server.

The current solution is git-annex.