git: simplest way to share a repository between two laptops on a local network?

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If my friend has a git repository on his laptop, and we are both connect to the same LAN, what's the absolute simplest way for me to clone that repository?

As far as I can tell, the options are:

Getting SSH access to his machine
Installing a web server and using git instaweb

But neither of these are particularly simple (or, at least, as simple as hg serve)… Is there anything better?

What machines are you both using? – dandrews Jun 15 '11 at 19:40 — dandrews, Jun 15 '11 at 19:40

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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cd project
git daemon --reuseaddr --base-path=.git --export-all --verbose

To access: git pull git://HOST/

See answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/377293/794407

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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answered Jan 29 '12 at 21:19

bara

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '11 at 19:44

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I don't remember what all the options mean, so it may take some playing, but I think git daemon does what you want. I have had it work in the past.

answered Jun 15 '11 at 19:44

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Ah, yes, `git daemon` is what I want. Thanks. – David Wolever Jun 15 '11 at 19:53

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 15 '11 at 19:45

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For cloning only, you want to use git daemon --export-all $PWD You can configure it to be read/write, but that is very insecure.

git-instaweb does not allow you to clone a repository.

Of course using github is a convenient way to share repositories without lots of configuration (though setting up an ssh server is usually not very difficult).

answered Jun 15 '11 at 19:45

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Ah, yes, `git daemon` looks like what I want. Thanks. – David Wolever Jun 15 '11 at 19:54

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 15 '11 at 19:43

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Not exactly point-and-click, but this might help:

http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way

Also, if you have access to his drive via any type of share (NFS, Samba, etc) then you can clone via the share name.

Oh, and there's also git-daemon.

answered Jun 15 '11 at 19:43

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Ah, yes, `git daemon` looks like what I want. Thanks. – David Wolever Jun 15 '11 at 19:53

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 23 '11 at 10:58

I was wondering if laptops (behind NAT) could remotely address each other (with logical rather than hostnames) via XMPP, if a tunneling of SSH over XMPP existed. I found http://code.google.com/p/xmpp-ssh/ but it seems old and unloved, and not clear whether intermediate servers need to support the XMPP extensions it uses.

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