在工作中的共享网络驱动器上使用版本控制系统

Question

I am trying to set up a version control system at work to manage python code among multiple collaborators (ideally, the VCS would be integrated into IntelliJ PyCharm).

I am familiar with GitHub, which I have played around with. But I am leery of putting the intellectual property (code) of the company on GitHub servers (even if it is a paid, private repository). I would like to basically take advantage of Git VCS, but instead of storing repositories on GitHub online servers, I would instead like these repositories to be on our the Shared Windows Drive @ work. Is it possible to do this with Git?

Here is the set up: Each user has a local drive and access to the shared drive I want each user to have a local repository on their local drives, which they can push to the 'master' repository on the shared drive (pending checking the code differences and approvals, which I currently do on the GitHub website via 'pull request').

Does that make sense? I can't seem to find any tutorials / documentation on how to achieve this!

Thank you!

Answer 1

You can certainly use git without github.

Placing the origin repo on a shared drive is one option, but it has some disadvantages. (To avoid confusion, by the way, its a good idea to refer to the source repository as origin ; in git terminology, master is the default branch.)

You will still need each developer to clone the repo, and they should use file:// URL's to clone it. (Just using the path will work, but may cause additional issues.) So for example

git clone file://server/share/path/to/repo

Another option is to internally host a server that supports git. You could use something like GitLab. Or you could host it in TFS. Or there are others... (You also can just put it on a web server, but again this won't get you advanced workflow features etc.)