Re: Off-line deverloper workflow?

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

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.

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
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



-- 
Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net