Re: Hosting from Windows XP.

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2009, 17:34 UTC
Message-ID: <m3bptux984.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20090126163124.GA31810@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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.

You can use instead "dumb" HTTP protocol, or network filesystem (network share). Or SSH.

Note that for push you don't [usually] use git-daemon: you can use SSH, filesystem (network share), HTTPS with WebDAV.

> > 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 JGit and its daemon

>From what I remember currently JGit daemon generates suboptimal

packfiles, as it does not support delta compression yet...

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Jakub Narebski
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