Having a local Git repository is great, it lets you keep versioned copies of your work, and doesn’t take up much space. But if you need to share your repository with someone else, such as with a development environment, you quickly find you need a simple way of keeping the repository up to date, and allowing access to other people. Email and thumb drives are soon not enough to keep up with the pace of development. What you need is a server to keep all the information in.

I’m going to show you how we have things setup, and hopefully guide you in your quest to have a remote repository that works for you.

Assumptions:

First off I’m going to assume you have a server setup somewhere, and that you have ssh and root(or sudo) access. This is written for FreeBSD, but the steps should be similar enough on pretty much any Linux or BSD distro.
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Posted: July 22nd, 2008 under Computers, Projects, Subversion, git.
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At work, we have a couple of internal applications powered by Ruby on Rails, such as our jobs board, and our customer management system. We use several technologies to make sure that our internal applications have 99.999% uptime. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to go over some of the things that we use to keep our uptime high and ease of development…umm…easy. Read more »

Posted: July 8th, 2008 under Computers, Ruby on Rails.
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