Re: git over rsync+ssh

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2008, 16:02 UTC
Message-ID: <32541b130807090902q2cdc9fcbg6f685dcb96407644@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <g52gbg$si9$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 7/9/08, Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm> wrote:

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> I want to put a git repo on a server where I have ssh access but failed to
> compile git (AIX 5.1, has libz.a but no .so nor headers; compiling
> prerequisite zlib failed, probably due to a botched build environment).
>
>  As far as I can see my only option for a private repo is using rsync over
> ssh.
>
>  Alas, the rsync:// transport of git seems to imply an rsync daemon
> connection.
>
>  How can I specify rsync over ssh as the git transport?

I don't know if this will help in your case, but if it will be only you pushing to this repository, one option is to simply create a bare push repository on your local machine, and then manually just rsync+ssh it to the remote machine from the command line as a so-called "push" operation.

You would then make the repo available to others over http or something, which presumably you have available.

Would that work?

Have fun,

Avery