"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tim Visher <tim.visher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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
