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Git Essentials

You're reading from   Git Essentials Create, merge, and distribute code with Git, the most powerful and flexible versioning system available

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287909
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ferdinando Santacroce Ferdinando Santacroce
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Building up a personal Git server with web interface


In the office where I work, I was the first person who started to use Git for production code. At some point, after months of little trials in my spare time, I gained courage and converted all the Subversion repositories, where I usually work alone, into Git ones.

Unfortunately, firm IT policies forbid me to use external source code repositories; so no GitHub or Bitbucket. To make things even worse, I also could not obtain a Linux server, and take advantage of great web interfaces like Gitosis, GitLab, and so on. So I started to Google around the web for a solution, and I finally found a solution that can be useful for people in a similar condition.

The SCM Manager

SCM Manager (https://www.scm-manager.org/) is a very easy solution to share your Git repositories in a local Windows network. It offers a standalone solution to install and make it work on top of Apache Web Server directly in Windows. Though it is built in Java, you can make it...

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