Git repository on ftp server

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szaman picture szaman · Feb 28, 2011 · Viewed 28.5k times · Source

I have ftp server and I cannot install additional software on it. Is it possible to create on it git repository and clone to local pc? I tried to create local repository and copied it to ftp. Will it work? How can I clone from ftp server?

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Mark Longair picture Mark Longair · Feb 28, 2011

There are various other questions on StackOverflow that discuss this subject, e.g.:

... which might have a solution that's suitable for your case.

You don't say what operating system you're using, but if it's Linux-based what I would try is to mount the FTP server as part of your local filesystem with FUSE + fuseftp. If you're using Mac OS, you could similarly try MacFuse. (n.b. I've never tried fuseftp, myself, so I'm not in a position to recommend or disrecommend it.) No doubt there are equivalents for Windows as well.

Then you should just be able to run git init --bare in the mounted directory and push and pull from it as it it were a local repository. You should also enable the example post-update hook so that git update-server-info is run after each push - otherwise people will have problems when interacting with the server with an ftp:// repository URL.

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