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Re: Hosting from Windows XP.

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jan 26, 2009, 16:31 UTC
Message-ID
<20090126163124.GA31810@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<c115fd3c0901260827ge5e4b29w871b345da2373f6b@mail.gmail.com>
Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm trying to get git set up for my company.  We're stuck using
> Windows for the foreseeable future so for now I have to host the
> central integration repository out of a Windows box.  I figured the
> easiest way to do this, short of installing cygwin, would be to do a
> simple msysgit install and then run git daemon with the relevant repo
> copied over onto the server.  Then devs could track that repo.
> However, it appears that msysgit does not install git daemon.
git-daemon isn't ported yet, due to its heavy reliance on POSIX
behavior during fork+exec.
 
> I may totally be missing something here, but I don't know what.  Short
> of the question is, how do I host a repo out of Windows?
I think your options are limited to:
- Use Cygwin
- Use a virtual machine running Linux with git inside it
- Use JGit and its daemon
-- 
Shawn.
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  1. Tim VisherJan 26, 2009
  2. Shawn O. PearceJan 26, 2009
  3. Jakub NarebskiJan 26, 2009
  4. Shawn O. PearceJan 26, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinJan 26, 2009
  6. Tay Ray ChuanJan 26, 2009
  7. Shawn O. PearceJan 26, 2009
  8. Tay Ray ChuanJan 26, 2009
  9. Johannes GilgerJan 26, 2009
  10. Tim VisherJan 27, 2009

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