Linking two remote repositories

Pavel· Mar 12, 2010, 14:09 UTC · lore

Hi All, I'm just investigating of using git for following: We have two development teams in far direction from each other and very slow network connection between them. Currently they are using one Subversion repository on one side, but committing from other side is very-very slow.

The idea is to setup two git repositories in two locations and developers will commit in there local repository. But what I can't figure out it's how to connect those repositories between each other, I do not want to have two "special" people to push between remote repositories. Is there any ideas how to connect two repositories and have actual code versions on both of them ?

Thanks, Pavel.

Jens Lehmann· Mar 12, 2010, 16:10 UTC · re: Pavel · lore

Re: Linking two remote repositories

Am 12.03.2010 15:09, schrieb Pavel:

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> Hi All,
> I'm just investigating of using git for following:
> We have two development teams in far direction from each other and very slow
> network connection between them. Currently they are using one Subversion
> repository on one side, but committing from other side is very-very slow. 
> 
> The idea is to setup two git repositories in two locations and developers will
> commit in there local repository. But what I can't figure out it's how to
> connect those repositories between each other, I do not want to have two
> "special" people to push between remote repositories. 
> Is there any ideas how to connect two repositories and have actual code versions
> on both of them ?

Having a similar setup at my dayjob, I think it should be sufficient to have only one git server (maybe at the location where your svn-server is now). As git keeps a local copy of the whole repo operations like commit, diff and merge are fast and independent of network speed. Only clone, fetch and push go over the slow network connection, but for us this is fast enough (and a lot faster than our old RCS based VCS, which was basically unusable for this scenario).