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Vej
Vej

Reputation: 400

Best Simple Way to Share a Git Repository over LAN

I need to share a large git repository (>3GB in total, .git folder is ~1.1GB) as Windows Shared Folder over LAN with my colleagues. But they found it is really slow to clone and push/pull -- i.e. waits ~30min before the clone starts, and suspended ~5min before any push/pull starts.

Does everyone know any methods to reduce the latency or better way to share the repo?

P.S. I don't want to setup a Gitlab because it's too complicated.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2625

Answers (2)

Vej
Vej

Reputation: 400

git daemon works really well in this situation. Its performance is good, but lacks of security on Windows Server.

On server side, run the following command:

cd ~/Documents/All-My-Git-Repos/
git daemon --verbose --reuseaddr --export-all --enable=receive-pack --base-path=.

On client side, clone any repo like this:

git clone git://my-git-server-address/repo-folder-name repo-clone-name

While using this on Windows server, the firewall will prompt for permissions on Port 9418, which should be granted.

Upvotes: 2

Marina Liu
Marina Liu

Reputation: 38096

Since your git repo is very big, you can bundle the whole git repo or part of commits among your colleagues sharing.

Bundle the whole repo: git bundle create repo.bundle --all

Bundle a branch: git bundle create repo.bundle branchname

Bundle some commits: git bundle create commits.bundle branchname ^commit

For the one who apply the bundled commits to his local repo, he can verify the bundle file by git bundle verify /path/to/bundle/file.

More details, you can refer Git's Little Bundle of Joy and git bundle.

Upvotes: 4

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