Local Shared Repository

Date: February 6th 2016
Last updated: February 6th 2016

I have a laptop and desktop computer connected on the same network (TP-LINK ac1900 modem/router). I have also just plugged in a usb stick to store python scripts.

The idea here is to create a local git repo on this usb drive so that I can update my own file sharing and add in a little version control. At the moment file sharing is done by email and version control between computers is non-existent!

Steps:

  • setup router
  • mount network drive
  • initialize git repo
  • add local git origin
  • push commits to usb drive

1) setup router

I formatted the drive as NTFS and left the usb drive available to everyone on the network
usbsettings

Check that you can connect to the drive...

connect to server

2) mount network drive

I followed a bunch of methods to access the usb drive, but the one that worked for me was to mount the drive in my home directory.

  • create ~/tplink
    mkdir tplink
  • mount usb drive 
# mount all content inside 'volume' to tplink directory
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=ray //192.168.1.1/volume ~/tplink
# enter password for username specified

# check it worked 
ls tplink
#returns: photos music

3) initialise local repo

"Git doesn't care where a remote repo is kept"

# go to existing directory
cd ~/python/scripts/kivy

# initialise git if not done already
git init

# clone the directory to the usb drive
git clone --bare ~/python/scripts/kivy ~/tplink/kivy.git

# add the cloned directory as a remote repo location
git remote add tplink ~/tplink/kivy.git

# add, commit, push
git add .
git commit -a -m "initial commit"
git push tplink master

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