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prometheuspk
prometheuspk

Reputation: 3815

Hosting a git server on localhost

My company does not have a central git server, and neither do they allow me to use BitBucket etc.

Is there anyway I can use my localhost as remote ?

EDIT: I am on a windows machine

Upvotes: 19

Views: 30132

Answers (3)

TonyHo
TonyHo

Reputation: 254

In Windows GitStack is an option, it is much more easy than Gitolite.

Upvotes: 4

Jan Krüger
Jan Krüger

Reputation: 18520

Local directories work just like remote repository URLs, so basically there's nothing you need to do as long as you're the only person using the repository.

Example, assuming Git Bash (from msysgit):

mkdir /c/git
mkdir /c/git/testrepo.git
cd /c/git/testrepo.git
git init --bare
cd $TEMP
git clone /c/git/testrepo.git
cd testrepo
# hackety hack
git add .
git commit -m "I shouldn't be making commits like this but who's gonna sue me"
git push origin master
cd ..
git clone /c/git/testrepo.git testrepo2
cd testrepo2
# wow, all my files are here

That said, just creating a normal local repository with git init gives you a complete Git repository in which you can make commits and everything, and which you can clone and merge/pull from. Most of the time, this is really all you need.

Upvotes: 23

eRIZ
eRIZ

Reputation: 1507

Yes, just put a username as localhost: http://linuxprograms.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/how-to-set-up-a-git-repository-locally/

The other option is to setup a Gitolite locally.

But I don't know why do you want to setup an another repository when "workcopy" is a repository indeed.

Upvotes: 3

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