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Re: Question re. git remote repository

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 16, 2013, 18:21 UTC
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<20130116182156.GB4426@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:06:15PM +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
> > In regards to the repositories, I think I understand correctly that
> > each developer will have a local repository that they will work
> > from, and that there will also be a remote repository (origin) that
> > will hold the original version of the project.

Note that this is just one common topology for setting up repos (and it is probably the simplest). Others are described here:

  http://git-scm.com/book/en/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows
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> > Ideally we'd prefer to simply create our remote repository on a drive
> > of one of our local network servers. Is this possible?
> 
> Yes, this is possible, but it's not advised to keep such a "reference"
> repository on an exported networked drive for a number of reasons (both
> performance and bug-free operation).

I agree that performance is not ideal (although if you are on a fast LAN, it probably would not matter much), but I do not recall any specific bugs in that area. Can you elaborate?

-Peff
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