Re: git-daemon on Windows?

["Chris Hoffman" <chris.c.hoffman@gmail.com>]

Yes, I think that this is a very good section of the tutorial to
consult.  It is just hard for me to beat back my subversion thinking.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM, John Yesberg <john.yesberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to learn about this too.
> I found the gittutorial
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html
> useful.
> See the section "Using git for collaboration", which explains how use
> can use a shared filesystem.
>
> Or maybe I don't understand the subtleties of the issue.
>
> John.
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>> Chris Hoffman schrieb:
>>> Is there a distribution of the git server for Windows, or am I totally
>>> missing the point of git?  Will a simple file share work, or do I have
>>> to worry about file locking and such (e.g., two people try to commit
>>> at the same time).
>>
>> You are missing *some* point of git: Usually, everyone has his own
>> repository, hence, commits that happen concurrently won't be a problem.
>>
>> But you must exchange your work, and for this it is common that everyone
>> in addition has a publically accessible (bare) repository. These you can
>> place on a normal file share. I do this all the time.
>>
>> You *can* choose to have only a single (bare) repository that everyone
>> uses to exchange work. But then you do have to worry about concurrent
>> *pushes* that get in the way of each other. You have this problem no
>> matter which form of server you chose (file share, ssh, git daemon,
>> WebDAV). If you go this route, you need a policy how people publish their
>> work (eg. branch namespaces). msysgit and 4msysgit do it this way.
>>
>> -- Hannes
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