git repository sync between computers, when moving around?
Easiest way: central repo created with --bare (so no checked out files, only .git stuff), or github
"Distributed" will look like that:
Setup:
- On laptop:
git remote add desktop ssh://user@desktop/home/user/repo/path - On desktop:
git remote add laptop ssh://user@laptop/home/user/repo/path
Syncing:
git pull laptop/desktop (push won't work very well on non-bare repos because git won't modify checked out files when pushing to remote repo)
Or, make repo on pendrive ;)
Couldn't you just create a remote repository on GitHub, BitBucket or GitLab? (The latter two companies offer unlimited free private repositories). When you finish the day at work, simply use git push to push your changes to the remote repo. When you get home, just do git pull to pull your changes from work onto your home machine. Likewise, when you finish at home, do git push and then when you return to work, do git pull.
I think, there are multiple approaches. I will just describe, how I handle this
I have one netbook as a 24/7 server, that holds multiple git-repositories. From/To there I push and pull changes via SSH. For access from outside I use dyndns.org. It works fine, especially because I have more than two systems, that needs access to some of the repositories.
Update: A little example. Lets say my netbook is called "netbook". I create a repository there
$ ssh [email protected]
$ cd ~/git
$ mkdir newThing
$ cd newThing
$ git init --bare
On my desktop I will than create a clone of it. Maybe I will add some files also
$ git clone [email protected]:/home/username/git/newThing
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Initial"
$ git push origin master
On my portables I will (first) do the same, but for remote access (from outside my LAN), I will also add the external address.
$ git clone [email protected]:/home/username/git/newThing
$ git remote add externalName [email protected]:/home/username/git/newThing
$ git pull externalName master
Its just the way git (/git workflows) works. You can add as many remote repositories as you like. It doesnt matters, if two or more refers to the same "physical" repositories. You dont need an own local "server", you can use any public server, to which you have ssh access. And of course you dont need a public server at all, if you dont need access from outside. The bare repository can also be on the desktop system and you can then create a working-copy-repository within the local filesystem.
$ mkdir myRepo; cd myRepo
$ git init --bare
$ cd /path/to/myProject
$ git remote add origin /path/to/myRepo
$ git add .; git commit -m "Initial"; git push origin master
This is the way, how I handle this, and I for me it works quite fine (if not perfect ;))
Something to read: http://progit.org/ Really good book.-
I would clone the repo from one box to the other, and then set up the two repos so that I can just git fetch from the other box.
Renaming the remote from origin to the name of the other box makes the remote branches easier to read.
Note that by just using git fetch (and not git push), this works well with non-bare repositories:
[user@foo repo]$ git fetch -v bar
[user@bar repo]$ git fetch -v foo