Re: Can Git work for us if we are remotely hosted?

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:

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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