Re: Off-line deverloper workflow?

[Woody Wu <narkewoody@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:14:05PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Woody Wu <narkewoody@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a colleague who has to left our office for three month, but still
> > need to work on the project which is hosted on our in-office git
> > repository. Problem is that our company has firewall, it's not possible
> > or not allowed to access the company LAN outside the building.  So I
> > want to ask you expert, can you suggest a best practice of git workflow
> > that suitable to my situation?
> 
> If he can set up an SSH server on his machine (outside the company
> network), then he can set up a mirror repo on his machine, where you
> can push changes from the office to him, and pull changes from him
> back into the office. Of course, you will probably need to synchronize
> this with him, especially if he's travelling and frequently offline or
> changing IP addresses. Also you need to be able to make outbound SSH
> connections through the company firewall, but AFAICS that is usually
> allowed.

Outbound ssh to me is not a problem, but inbound ssh to him may be a big
problem. You know hotel firewall or some home ADSL don't allow that.

> 
> His work repo is then a local clone of the mirror repo, and when he's
> ready to publish some work to you, he pushes it to the mirror repo,
> and asks you to pull from the mirror repo.

> 
> If the source code is not secret, you could even synchronize through
> GitHub or some other repo hosting service, which would be even easier
> to set up.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> ...Johan
> 
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > -woody
> >
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> 
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> Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
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