On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:14:05PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Woody Wu <narkewoody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a colleague who has to left our office for three month, but still > > need to work on the project which is hosted on our in-office git > > repository. Problem is that our company has firewall, it's not possible > > or not allowed to access the company LAN outside the building. So I > > want to ask you expert, can you suggest a best practice of git workflow > > that suitable to my situation? > > If he can set up an SSH server on his machine (outside the company > network), then he can set up a mirror repo on his machine, where you > can push changes from the office to him, and pull changes from him > back into the office. Of course, you will probably need to synchronize > this with him, especially if he's travelling and frequently offline or > changing IP addresses. Also you need to be able to make outbound SSH > connections through the company firewall, but AFAICS that is usually > allowed. Outbound ssh to me is not a problem, but inbound ssh to him may be a big problem. You know hotel firewall or some home ADSL don't allow that. > > His work repo is then a local clone of the mirror repo, and when he's > ready to publish some work to you, he pushes it to the mirror repo, > and asks you to pull from the mirror repo. > > If the source code is not secret, you could even synchronize through > GitHub or some other repo hosting service, which would be even easier > to set up. > > > Hope this helps, > > ...Johan > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -woody > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > -- > Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> > www.herland.net -- I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html