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I have a few Xcode projects on my iMac for which I enabled git when I created the project in Xcode. Now how can I access the repository from another Mac on my local network and make changes that are then recognized by the repository and propagated when I open the project again on the iMac?

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If you've got remote login enabled in System Preferences -> Sharing, you can access your iMac from your local network via ssh, ie ssh user@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is your IP address.

You'd want to git clone the repository so that you have two copies of it, one on your iMac and one on your OtherMac. To do that, on OtherMac: 

git clone user@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/Users/<USERNAME>/path-to-XCodeProject myProject

This will create a folder "myProject" on OtherMac, containing a clone of the git repository from iMac. Then you'd work, git commit as normal on OtherMac.

The difficulty you will face with this is that the git repository on iMac is not bare. To get around that, you can work on specific branches, or set up an intermediate bare repository on either Mac, which you then git push to from OtherMac and git pull from from iMac (and vice-versa).

I haven't done this; you might have issues with Mac-specific XCode project settings. I know they're by default added to the git repository.

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  • Thanks, I'll try that. BTW, is that double user@user@ in your git command above correct? – koen Mar 06 '12 at 13:05
  • @Koen Nope, the double `user@user@` shouldn't be there. My bad, will edit accordingly. – simont Mar 06 '12 at 15:45
  • I ended up using DropBox to share my project between the two Macs. To keep everyting in place, I use a symlink (not an alias) to my project folders from the DropBox folder so everthing can stay in place. – koen Apr 09 '12 at 19:28