From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tay Ray Chuan Subject: Re: Hosting from Windows XP. Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:46:31 +0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Visher X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 26 18:48:52 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 1LRVZU-0003L4-JE for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:48:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752558AbZAZRqg (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:46:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752415AbZAZRqe (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:46:34 -0500 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.172]:47502 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752179AbZAZRqd (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:46:33 -0500 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so6990861wfd.4 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:46:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Tbhd0+v3kDwNmGFkhJdJ59EH8U0A2kIot6GCsjOcJeM=; b=i3gRVxzUubptTWBLeIDE4GCg7bNFQs+w6DB78h19eVMJ6++1IWZDXOxt0kcTPiTszd kyRaN/OXYbgxYSAoQRN2tRIuBzikHKe+tZsuorzS0f/OoABji8JOwBK/1RjabEFHcyie Rb+myL9MGrAWD1LxODI7B0GFTeU8BYQJ1H5aY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KB6ErRZ08fqHNfLQxcAg/tUuCs6ZGPYYerGCycFLnbXiZoOc4++nmLVacYP5PDTS/4 zW+q0MRg2oN70yx5D6GWY4V07+zoMwXAJ0nWHAHUwStVrVGEBJwc0j5xLOy/1o8kSJ8N /VBhzslHxHeYrnU5+t210P7ulwR0DwXm37x48= Received: by 10.114.170.1 with SMTP id s1mr1830688wae.57.1232991991710; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:46:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Tim Visher wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > 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. you might want to look at using pushing over DAV: say, have all your employees pulling from a DAV-enabled server. The DAV protocol itself is platform-agnostic, so your server could be Windows or Linux or whatever. Since DAV deals with file I/O, you might want to look at your security options, though I think basic access authentication would be enough if your server is only accessible within your company's LAN. By pushing over DAV, you can avoid running a git daemon. Looking at how you would do this on Windows, i don't think it's advisable to do so. To do this, first, you would need to have cygwin, then you have to run "cygrunsrv -I", which will install your git daemon as a Windows service. AFAIK, cygrunsrv pipes stuff to git-daemon. I don't know how good this option is, reliablity or performance-wise. I've tried this out (somewhat limitedly) using git built on cygwin, with an Apache server, though currently you would have problems if your Apache was running on a Windows box (my patch to fix this is on its way). -- Cheers, Ray Chuan