I just joined a new team (very small: four developers in total, with two of those leaving soon). The two original developers set up the git repo on a folder in a Windows network share.

Am I taking crazy pills, or is that a bad idea? Our organization does have github/gitlab/bitbucket available, so is there any good reason not to use those hosted solutions?

  • ActuallyRuben@actuallyruben.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Do they have an agreement with GitHub/gitlab/bitbucket? Using their consumer targeted services as a business is just asking for trouble.

    Storing a headless repository on a shared filesystem is a perfectly valid solution, and something git was designed to do, if you don’t mind the lack of online interface. Although I’d personally prefer using an ssh connection.

    • Fantasmita@lib.lgbtEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You can run a private instance of GitLab without issues. Also, there is more OpenSource and free git repository services beyond GitHub and Gitlab, that you can install and run locally in a small server.