From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: Hosting from Windows XP. Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:31:24 -0800 Message-ID: <20090126163124.GA31810@spearce.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Visher X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 26 17:33:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LRUOR-0001nU-5e for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:32:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751658AbZAZQb0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:31:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751641AbZAZQb0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:31:26 -0500 Received: from george.spearce.org ([209.20.77.23]:51210 "EHLO george.spearce.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751616AbZAZQbZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:31:25 -0500 Received: by george.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BEF6738210; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:31:24 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Tim Visher wrote: > I'm trying to get git set up for my company. We're stuck using > Windows for the foreseeable future so for now I have to host the > central integration repository out of a Windows box. I figured the > easiest way to do this, short of installing cygwin, would be to do a > simple msysgit install and then run git daemon with the relevant repo > copied over onto the server. Then devs could track that repo. > However, it appears that msysgit does not install git daemon. git-daemon isn't ported yet, due to its heavy reliance on POSIX behavior during fork+exec. > I may totally be missing something here, but I don't know what. Short > of the question is, how do I host a repo out of Windows? I think your options are limited to: - Use Cygwin - Use a virtual machine running Linux with git inside it - Use JGit and its daemon -- Shawn.