Quickly share your git repository
This is an insecure (but very fast) way of sharing access to your git repository. Use only on a LAN where you know who can access your machine. For a more secure way, use SSH.
Read-only access
On the machine with the repository you want to share.
git daemon --base-path=/path/where/your/repositories/are --export-all --reuseaddr --informative-errors --verbose
# export-all - shares all the repositories in a folder from "–base-path" option
# base-path=. - daemon looks for repositories in a current directory(".")
# reuseaddr - allows to restart server quickly
# informative-errors - provides cleaner error message for clients
# verbose - notifies about each operation with the repository
With the previous example, all git repositories are exported because of the export-all option.
In order to manage which repository you want to share, simply create a git-daemon-export-ok empty file in the repository you want to share (and remove the former option).
On other machines
git clone git://IP/name-of-the-repository-to-clone
Adding push access
To enable push access to your git repository, simply add –enable=receive-pack in your command line.
Before pushing, the client needs to create a new branch and push it to the server. Then you can merge it into the target branch.
Creating aliases
Edit the ~/.gitconfig file by adding the following lines
[alias]
serve = !git daemon --base-path=. --export-all --reuseaddr --informative-errors --verbose
hub = !git daemon --base-path=. --export-all --enable=receive-pack --reuseaddr --informative-errors --verbose
And use the newly created commands:
git serve
# or
git hub