Setup Git-server on windows computer

So me and a friend of mine wanted to start programing

I'd recommend you to spend your effort and motivation on programming. Don't bother creating your own private remote repository, because you don't need one yet:

  1. Your local folder under git version control is already a git repository.
  2. If you want to collaborate:
    • GitHub is most popular for opensource projects, and it supports private repositories (up to 3 users).
    • GitLab allows private repositories for teams of unlimited size.
    • Bitbucket also allows private repositories, available for teams of up to 5 users.

There's a great collection of git references here: Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide


I use Bonobo git server on windows to serve my repositories via https using IIS as the web server. It works quite well but has some quirks when you want to have active directory (windows) authentication (you essentially need 2 Bonobo instances which I somehow didn't manage to get working). I access my Bonobo git repositories from Visual Studio, TortoiseGit and the git console, it just works as expected.

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