Question

I’ve been ‘playing’ with git on my own machine for 6 months now, and really loving it.

However, I’m finding it difficult to really grok how I would use it in a team/enterprisey environment. (I’m wondering whether Eric Sink is right).

I started out trying to install a git server on windows, but that didn’t go too well.

So I wondered about just setting up a second repository on my own machine and starting to get a hang on pulling/pushing to that.

Do you know of any good articles for starting ‘simple’ like that, or do you have any tips on grokking the next level?

Answer 1

If:

• your main computer is accessible through a shared path (\myMainComputer\MySharedDirectory)
• or you have several repo on the same computer

You simply can:

• git clone --bare /path/to/your/first/repo
• cd /path/to/your/first/repo
• git remote add bare_repo /path/to/bare/rep
• (work, commits)
• git push bare_repo
• (if other have pushed to bare repo as well)
• git pull bare_repo

In other words, the file protocole is supported as a legitimate URL for remote repos.
See git fetch, section URL:

For local repositories, also supported by git natively, the following syntaxes may be used:

/path/to/repo.git/
file:///path/to/repo.git/