From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:00:30 GMT
Subject: Re: a few scenarios before I create my first repo [Scanned]
Message-ID: <slrngl8snu.tap.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <gj1aoj$jas$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 2008-12-26, Zorba <cr@altmore.co.uk> wrote:

> Ok, I'll install git on workstation, where I'll be running the bash / gui 
> from
> but I'll create the repo on the server (for backup purposes) - so won't need 
> to install git there I'm assuming?

I would certainly go for making that also a git repo instead
of just a file-based backup server.

This has has 2 benefits: (1) it allows people to work
together in a more controlled fashion than ad hoc push/pull
from each other (2) being a full-blown git repo, it can
store a lot more history, *and* it's faster and uses less
space/network bw doing so.

Such servers usually have a "bare repository", meaning
what's inside the ".git" subdirectory is all there is, and
there is nothing actually checked out.