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Installing GIT Server

Subject: Installing GIT Server

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Neeraj Mathawan· Aug 10, 2012, 15:17 UTC · lore

Hi, We have decided to use GIT for a huge government implementation, I am looking for some help with installation of GIT SERVER.

Few questions:-

1. What platform to choose - UNIX, MAC or Windows? We have lot of windows 2008 installations, and if there are no trade off's we would love to use Windows 2008 server and install the GIT server compoent there.

2. Once that is done, the client machine mostly MAC OSX development machines...will they be able to connect using SSH or file share?

Can someone help me with this?

-Raj

Andrew Keller· Aug 10, 2012, 16:31 UTC · re: Neeraj Mathawan · lore

Re: Installing GIT Server

On Aug 10, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Neeraj Mathawan wrote:

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> We have decided to use GIT for a huge government implementation, I am looking for some help with installation of GIT SERVER. 
> 
> Few questions:-
> 
> 1. What platform to choose - UNIX, MAC or Windows? We have lot of windows 2008 installations, and if there are no trade off's we would love to use Windows 2008 server and install the GIT server compoent there.
> 
> 2. Once that is done, the client machine mostly MAC OSX development machines...will they be able to connect using SSH or file share?
> 
> Can someone help me with this?

Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X all work equally well.  Haven't tried git-daemon on Windows, however I have noticed that Git in general is much slower on Windows and the default memory limit is low, which can cause problems with large repositories.  I'd guess that git-daemon might have similar problems.

In the past, I have had problems with programs with programs in general accessing shared resources on file shares.  I've had permission problems, update problems, and corruption problems when the network fails.  I have had much better success with SSH.

~ Andrew Keller

Drew Northup· Aug 10, 2012, 17:57 UTC · re: Neeraj Mathawan · lore

Re: Installing GIT Server

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Neeraj Mathawan <NEERAJM@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
> We have decided to use GIT for a huge government implementation, I am looking for some help with installation of GIT SERVER.
>
> Few questions:-
>
> 1. What platform to choose - UNIX, MAC or Windows? We have lot of windows 2008 installations, and if there are no trade off's we would love to use Windows 2008 server and install the GIT server compoent there.
>
> 2. Once that is done, the client machine mostly MAC OSX development machines...will they be able to connect using SSH or file share?
>
> Can someone help me with this?

Raj, You may find that using Gitolite [1] (and following the documentation that comes with it) to be a good solution to what you are trying to do.

(1): https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/

-- 
-Drew Northup
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"As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?"
-John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59

Neeraj· Aug 10, 2012, 18:27 UTC · re: Drew Northup · lore

Re: Installing GIT Server

Thanks Drew, I will look into this.

Neeraj Mathawan 610-213-0673

On Aug 10, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Drew Northup <n1xim.email@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Neeraj Mathawan <NEERAJM@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> We have decided to use GIT for a huge government implementation, I am looking for some help with installation of GIT SERVER.
>> 
>> Few questions:-
>> 
>> 1. What platform to choose - UNIX, MAC or Windows? We have lot of windows 2008 installations, and if there are no trade off's we would love to use Windows 2008 server and install the GIT server compoent there.
>> 
>> 2. Once that is done, the client machine mostly MAC OSX development machines...will they be able to connect using SSH or file share?
>> 
>> Can someone help me with this?
> 
> Raj,
> You may find that using Gitolite [1] (and following the documentation
> that comes with it) to be a good solution to what you are trying to
> do.
> 
> (1): https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/
> 
> -- 
> -Drew Northup
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?"
> -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59