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Reputation: 8179

How do I setup git with no central repository?

Three of us in the office are on Mac laptops and we use git day to day.

We want to share a repo with each other without setting up a central repo.

Dave pushes to Sally who pushes to Chandu.

Chandu can pull from Sally and Dave.

Is there a good way to do this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1208

Answers (4)

hasen
hasen

Reputation: 166362

Just pull from each other :)

Instead of pushing, just make a pull request (verbally, on IRC, or however you want); ask people to pull from you.

Upvotes: 1

Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor

Reputation: 34672

If you want to be able to push to/pull from each other while offsite, you're going to need some kind of VPN so your laptops can talk to each other. It might be easier to set up a remote repository (or a set of them, one each) on a server somewhere, because that deals with the laptops being offline when you want to merge.

Upvotes: 0

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329262

It is perfectly compatible with the "Decentralized" notion of a DVCS like Git, and very easy to setup (all you need is sharing paths between the repos)

The only issues to address are:

  • the workflow of merges you need to follow (how do you manage public branches -- "public" as in pushed/pulled from one repo to another).
    See for instance this SO question, or that one.
  • the necessity to push to a bare repo, meaning each programmer must have two repo: one public where other push to (a bare repo), and one private, cloned of the first, from which he/she can push to other.
    That way you do not need to setup only one "central bare repo, but you can truly push to anyone you want.

Upvotes: 3

s1d
s1d

Reputation: 540

What you need to do is to setup a bare remote git repo. Check instructions here.

http://toolmantim.com/thoughts/setting_up_a_new_remote_git_repository

Upvotes: 0

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