{"thread":{"id":"24710","subject":"Can Git work for us if we are remotely hosted?","startedAt":"2010-08-11T22:51:14Z","lastAt":"2010-08-12T18:29:56Z","messageCount":6,"participants":["Sultan Shakir","Avery Pennarun"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"147837","messageId":"AANLkTin4JyZhmjm_1c4q7kjP0eXzA-_2eNsLzsnGASet@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"24710","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Can Git work for us if we are remotely hosted?","fromName":"Sultan Shakir","fromEmail":"sshakirflhosp@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-08-11T22:51:14Z","receivedAt":"2010-08-11T22:51:14Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sshakirflhosp@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"I've been trying to wrap my brain around how I can get Git to work at\nmy organization. The issue is that nearly all of our programs and\ntheir IDE are remotely hosted. This means that to even work on a file\nwe have to connect to the network in order to use the application that\nwe code in. We do have access to the backend where the files are\nstored though. How can we use Git in this situation without setting\nup another server?\n"},{"id":"147840","messageId":"AANLkTi=GDj47jieVL4+0YD1X5pa+9g7=c2wRx_T3CDVS@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"24710","inReplyTo":"AANLkTin4JyZhmjm_1c4q7kjP0eXzA-_2eNsLzsnGASet@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Can Git work for us if we are remotely hosted?","fromName":"Avery Pennarun","fromEmail":"apenwarr@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-08-11T23:06:22Z","receivedAt":"2010-08-11T23:06:22Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"apenwarr@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/20592?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Sultan Shakir wrote:\n> I've been trying to wrap my brain around how I can get Git to work at\n> my organization.  The issue is that nearly all of our programs and\n> their IDE are remotely hosted.  This means that to even work on a file\n> we have to connect to the network in order to use the application that\n> we code in.  We do have access to the backend where the files are\n> stored though.  How can we use Git in this situation without setting\n> up another server?\n\nIf you want, you could just push/pull to a git repo in a file share on\none of your existing fileservers.\n\nHave fun,\n\nAvery\n"},{"id":"147925","messageId":"AANLkTimxYgAwWWoJCxsQ_Rr-eGfWJWoL4Qscw3FBYk9_@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"24710","inReplyTo":"AANLkTi=GDj47jieVL4+0YD1X5pa+9g7=c2wRx_T3CDVS@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Can Git work for us if we are remotely hosted?","fromName":"Sultan Shakir","fromEmail":"sshakirflhosp@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-08-12T17:59:12Z","receivedAt":"2010-08-12T17:59:12Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sshakirflhosp@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote:\n> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Sultan Shakir wrote:\n>> I've been trying to wrap my brain around how I can get Git to work at\n>> my organization.  The issue is that nearly all of our programs and\n>> their IDE are remotely hosted.  This means that to even work on a file\n>> we have to connect to the network in order to use the application that\n>> we code in.  We do have access to the backend where the files are\n>> stored though.  How can we use Git in this situation without setting\n>> up another server?\n>\n> If you want, you could just push/pull to a git repo in a file share on\n> one of your existing fileservers.\n>\n> Have fun,\n>\n> Avery\n>\n\nAvery,\nPlease excuse my ignorance. What do you mean by a \"file share\" and\n\"existing fileservers\"?\n"},{"id":"147926","messageId":"AANLkTin_qwk9FxkhVkvfQyc0AFXOKfKX-b+BzgXas_CW@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"24710","inReplyTo":"AANLkTimxYgAwWWoJCxsQ_Rr-eGfWJWoL4Qscw3FBYk9_@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Can Git work for us if we are remotely hosted?","fromName":"Avery Pennarun","fromEmail":"apenwarr@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-08-12T18:08:35Z","receivedAt":"2010-08-12T18:08:35Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"apenwarr@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/20592?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Sultan Shakir wrote:\n> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote:\n>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Sultan Shakir wrote:\n>>> I've been trying to wrap my brain around how I can get Git to work at\n>>> my organization.  The issue is that nearly all of our programs and\n>>> their IDE are remotely hosted.  This means that to even work on a file\n>>> we have to connect to the network in order to use the application that\n>>> we code in.  We do have access to the backend where the files are\n>>> stored though.  How can we use Git in this situation without setting\n>>> up another server?\n>>\n>> If you want, you could just push/pull to a git repo in a file share on\n>> one of your existing fileservers.\n>\n> Please excuse my ignorance.  What do you mean by a \"file share\" and\n> \"existing fileservers\"?\n\nYou said you have \"access to the backend where the files are stored.\"\nSurely that's on a fileserver, like a Windows file sharing service or\na samba server or an NFS server, right? Any of those are capable of\nholding a git repository.\n\ngit is much faster if you store files on your local machine as much as\npossible. But you can push/pull from a shared repository on a\nsamba/NFS/whatever server and that generally won't be a performance\nproblem.\n\nHave fun,\n\nAvery\n"},{"id":"147927","messageId":"AANLkTi=wa_xdheoKDPr=rfugttpu56s-sd3Q6qFgBALL@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"24710","inReplyTo":"AANLkTin_qwk9FxkhVkvfQyc0AFXOKfKX-b+BzgXas_CW@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Can Git work for us if we are remotely hosted?","fromName":"Sultan Shakir","fromEmail":"sshakirflhosp@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-08-12T18:22:11Z","receivedAt":"2010-08-12T18:22:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sshakirflhosp@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote:\n> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Sultan Shakir wrote:\n>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote:\n>>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Sultan Shakir wrote:\n>>>> I've been trying to wrap my brain around how I can get Git to work at\n>>>> my organization.  The issue is that nearly all of our programs and\n>>>> their IDE are remotely hosted.  This means that to even work on a file\n>>>> we have to connect to the network in order to use the application that\n>>>> we code in.  We do have access to the backend where the files are\n>>>> stored though.  How can we use Git in this situation without setting\n>>>> up another server?\n>>>\n>>> If you want, you could just push/pull to a git repo in a file share on\n>>> one of your existing fileservers.\n>>\n>> Please excuse my ignorance.  What do you mean by a \"file share\" and\n>> \"existing fileservers\"?\n>\n> You said you have \"access to the backend where the files are stored.\"\n> Surely that's on a fileserver, like a Windows file sharing service or\n> a samba server or an NFS server, right?  Any of those are capable of\n> holding a git repository.\n>\n> git is much faster if you store files on your local machine as much as\n> possible.  But you can push/pull from a shared repository on a\n> samba/NFS/whatever server and that generally won't be a performance\n> problem.\n>\n> Have fun,\n>\n> Avery\n>\n\nThanks Avery. Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of using Git since we\ncan't really run nor can we compile files on our local machines?\n"},{"id":"147928","messageId":"AANLkTinv1qt+vXH0gMpxBKsm-u9EGL2LEWVrRQDyrqhr@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"24710","inReplyTo":"AANLkTi=wa_xdheoKDPr=rfugttpu56s-sd3Q6qFgBALL@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Can Git work for us if we are remotely hosted?","fromName":"Avery Pennarun","fromEmail":"apenwarr@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-08-12T18:29:56Z","receivedAt":"2010-08-12T18:29:56Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"apenwarr@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/20592?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Sultan Shakir wrote:\n> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote:\n>> You said you have \"access to the backend where the files are stored.\"\n>> Surely that's on a fileserver, like a Windows file sharing service or\n>> a samba server or an NFS server, right?  Any of those are capable of\n>> holding a git repository.\n>>\n>> git is much faster if you store files on your local machine as much as\n>> possible.  But you can push/pull from a shared repository on a\n>> samba/NFS/whatever server and that generally won't be a performance\n>> problem.\n>\n> Thanks Avery.  Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of using Git since we\n> can't really run nor can we compile files on our local machines?\n\nI don't know; you didn't say what was your purpose for using git.\n\nYou can run git directly with files on a network drive, but it'll be\nmuch slower than it should be. You might argue that *that* defeats\nthe purpose of using git too, since of the best features of git is how\nfast it is :)\n\nHave fun,\n\nAvery\n"}]}