Can Git work for us if we are remotely hosted?

I've been trying to wrap my brain around how I can get Git to work at
my organization.  The issue is that nearly all of our programs and
their IDE are remotely hosted.  This means that to even work on a file
we have to connect to the network in order to use the application that
we code in.  We do have access to the backend where the files are
stored though.  How can we use Git in this situation without setting
up another server?

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Sultan Shakir [off-list ref] wrote:

I've been trying to wrap my brain around how I can get Git to work at
my organization.  The issue is that nearly all of our programs and
their IDE are remotely hosted.  This means that to even work on a file
we have to connect to the network in order to use the application that
we code in.  We do have access to the backend where the files are
stored though.  How can we use Git in this situation without setting
up another server?

If you want, you could just push/pull to a git repo in a file share on
one of your existing fileservers.

Have fun,

Avery

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Avery Pennarun [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Sultan Shakir [off-list ref] wrote:

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I've been trying to wrap my brain around how I can get Git to work at
my organization.  The issue is that nearly all of our programs and
their IDE are remotely hosted.  This means that to even work on a file
we have to connect to the network in order to use the application that
we code in.  We do have access to the backend where the files are
stored though.  How can we use Git in this situation without setting
up another server?

If you want, you could just push/pull to a git repo in a file share on
one of your existing fileservers.

Have fun,

Avery

Avery,
Please excuse my ignorance.  What do you mean by a "file share" and
"existing fileservers"?

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Sultan Shakir [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Avery Pennarun [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Sultan Shakir [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I've been trying to wrap my brain around how I can get Git to work at
my organization.  The issue is that nearly all of our programs and
their IDE are remotely hosted.  This means that to even work on a file
we have to connect to the network in order to use the application that
we code in.  We do have access to the backend where the files are
stored though.  How can we use Git in this situation without setting
up another server?

If you want, you could just push/pull to a git repo in a file share on
one of your existing fileservers.

Please excuse my ignorance.  What do you mean by a "file share" and
"existing fileservers"?

You said you have "access to the backend where the files are stored."
Surely that's on a fileserver, like a Windows file sharing service or
a samba server or an NFS server, right?  Any of those are capable of
holding a git repository.

git is much faster if you store files on your local machine as much as
possible.  But you can push/pull from a shared repository on a
samba/NFS/whatever server and that generally won't be a performance
problem.

Have fun,

Avery

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Avery Pennarun [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Sultan Shakir [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Avery Pennarun [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Sultan Shakir [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I've been trying to wrap my brain around how I can get Git to work at
my organization.  The issue is that nearly all of our programs and
their IDE are remotely hosted.  This means that to even work on a file
we have to connect to the network in order to use the application that
we code in.  We do have access to the backend where the files are
stored though.  How can we use Git in this situation without setting
up another server?

If you want, you could just push/pull to a git repo in a file share on
one of your existing fileservers.

Please excuse my ignorance.  What do you mean by a "file share" and
"existing fileservers"?

You said you have "access to the backend where the files are stored."
Surely that's on a fileserver, like a Windows file sharing service or
a samba server or an NFS server, right?  Any of those are capable of
holding a git repository.

git is much faster if you store files on your local machine as much as
possible.  But you can push/pull from a shared repository on a
samba/NFS/whatever server and that generally won't be a performance
problem.

Have fun,

Avery

Thanks Avery.  Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of using Git since we
can't really run nor can we compile files on our local machines?

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Sultan Shakir [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Avery Pennarun [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

You said you have "access to the backend where the files are stored."
Surely that's on a fileserver, like a Windows file sharing service or
a samba server or an NFS server, right?  Any of those are capable of
holding a git repository.

git is much faster if you store files on your local machine as much as
possible.  But you can push/pull from a shared repository on a
samba/NFS/whatever server and that generally won't be a performance
problem.

Thanks Avery.  Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of using Git since we
can't really run nor can we compile files on our local machines?

I don't know; you didn't say what was your purpose for using git.

You can run git directly with files on a network drive, but it'll be
much slower than it should be.  You might argue that *that* defeats
the purpose of using git too, since of the best features of git is how
fast it is :)

Have fun,

Avery