Push git changes to a shared network drive

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user1549303 picture user1549303 · Jul 24, 2012 · Viewed 58.9k times · Source

How can a team of four people use Git (specifically Github for Windows) to push local changes to a shared network drive?

Right now (without Git) we have to copy the files from the network drive to our local machine, edit the files, and then re-upload them to the shared network drive. This is a painstaking process that can lead to lots of errors, but it seems like something Git could help us with.

Can we simply install Git on the shared drive and go from there?

Answer

Tony Eichelberger picture Tony Eichelberger · Mar 18, 2013

Not sure if you found something that works for you or not, but I have a writeup on how to do that very thing on a windows network drive:

http://tony.halcyonlane.com/blog/2011/09/22/Using-git-at-work-on-a-Windows-network-drive/

From a cmd prompt change to your mapped drive.

$ cd g:

Then cd into your soon to be git repository.

$ cd scripts

Then create an empty git repository. If you do not use the --bare option, you will have issues so don't leave that out.

$ git init --bare

Now if you don't have a local git repository yet, then you can clone your new repository wherever you like by navigating back to your local drive.

$ c:

$ cd work/scripts

$ git clone file://g:\scripts

When you clone, you automatically get a remote called "origin" and you can push to the server for safe keeping any time you make changes locally.

$ git push origin master

If you already have a git repository and you just want to push out to the shared drive then you can do this from within your local git dir.

$ git remote add origin file://g:\scripts

$ git push origin master

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