How do I setup git with no central repository?

Question

Three of us in the office are on Mac laptops and we use git day to day.

We want to share a repo with each other without setting up a central repo.

Dave pushes to Sally who pushes to Chandu.

Chandu can pull from Sally and Dave.

Is there a good way to do this?

Answer 1

It is perfectly compatible with the "Decentralized" notion of a DVCS like Git, and very easy to setup (all you need is sharing paths between the repos)

The only issues to address are:

• the workflow of merges you need to follow (how do you manage public branches -- "public" as in pushed/pulled from one repo to another).
  See for instance this SO question , or that one .
• the necessity to push to a bare repo , meaning each programmer must have two repo: one public where other push to (a bare repo), and one private, cloned of the first, from which he/she can push to other.
  That way you do not need to setup only one "central bare repo, but you can truly push to anyone you want.

Answer 2

Just pull from each other :)

Instead of pushing, just make a pull request (verbally, on IRC, or however you want); ask people to pull from you.

Answer 3

What you need to do is to setup a bare remote git repo. Check instructions here.

http://toolmantim.com/thoughts/setting_up_a_new_remote_git_repository

Answer 4

If you want to be able to push to/pull from each other while offsite, you're going to need some kind of VPN so your laptops can talk to each other. It might be easier to set up a remote repository (or a set of them, one each) on a server somewhere, because that deals with the laptops being offline when you want to merge.