Re: Windows Server?

John Dlugosz [off-list ref] wrote:

We are a Windows' shop, writing software that runs on Windows.
Naturally, the network location I.T. provided for the repository is on a
Windows server.  I'm concerned with using file:// access once everyone
starts using it in earnest, especially over a cross-continent VPN.

Yea, really, you want a Git server of some kind on that host.
file:// over SMB over VPN isn't pretty.
 

I suppose that git-daemon isn't available as a Windows service.

Nope.  You could try JGit and its "jgit daemon".  Its a pure
Java server.

I
posted a short time ago asking about it, and the news did not seem good.
So, is ssh a good second?

How are you going to run SSH on the server?  Cygwin SSH?

But yes, the SSH protocol is the git:// protocol, tunneled through SSH,
and will be much more efficient over the VPN than SMB.

Is there anything that needs to be done on the server machine, other
than having a SSH server, and formulating the path the way the disk
really is on that machine (as opposed to the network share structure)?

Nope, not really.
 
-- 
Shawn.