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Asked: 2026-05-20T20:16:05+00:00

We’re two people trying to get a new project up and running while working

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We’re two people trying to get a new project up and running while working in one place and discussing our ideas at the same time.

  1. git would be the preferred versioning system as I’m familiar with it
  2. I’m using Linux while my colleague uses Windows
  3. the lesser need for administration the better (we want to focus on coding)
  4. we have an internet connection and a server (but keep 3. in mind)

A first idea was to host the code on github but as the code should remain private this is not an option, unfortunately. Another one was to use git-daemon to host one persons’s repository locally in a centralized fashion.

Do you have any advice on best (and easy) practice?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here are a couple of options for doing everything locally to your network that don’t take much administration.

    Sharing a directory over SMB that contains a bare repository

    How about getting your Windows-using colleague to share a directory over SMB, so you can mount it with Samba. Then either one of you could just create a bare repository in that directory with:

    cd shared
mkdir project.git
git init --bare

    … and both push to and pull from that.

    Accessing a repository on your computer with SSH

    If you’re happy to give your collaborator an account on your computer, you can easily create a shared bare repository that he can access with SSH. If his user account is called bob, and you’re jnns, that’s just a matter of:

    sudo groupadd gitusers
sudo adduser jnns gitusers
sudo adduser bob gitusers
sudo mkdir -p /srv/git/project.git
sudo chown jnns:gitusers /srv/git/project.git
cd /srv/git/project.git
git init --bare --group=shared

    Then he can add a remote like this:

    git remote add jnns-computer bob@whatever.local:/srv/git/project.git

    … and you can just add the remote as:

    git remote add local /srv/git/project.git

    I don’t think that counts as a lot of admin, but maybe opinions would vary on that 🙂

    I feel I should also say that while you reject GitHub as not being an option because you’d have to pay for private repositories, you really don’t have to pay very much – I think $7 a month is a great deal for having private repositories on such a smooth service.

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