Working with Git on multiple machines
- by Tesserex
This may sound a bit strange, but I'm wondering about a good way to work in Git from multiple machines networked together in some way. It looks to me like I have two options, and I can see benefits on both sides:
Use git itself for sharing, each machine has its own repo and you have to fetch between them.
You can work on either machine even if the other is offline. This by itself is pretty big I think.
Use one repo that is shared over the network between machines.
No need to do git pulls every time you switch machines, since your code is always up to date.
Never worry that you forgot to push code from your other non-hosting machine, which is now out of reach, since you were working off a fileshare on this machine.
My intuition says that everyone generally goes with the first option. But the downside I see is that you might not always be able to access code from your other machines, and I certainly don't want to push all my WIP branches to github at the end of every day. I also don't want to have to leave my computers on all the time so I can fetch from them directly. Lastly a minor point is that all the git commands to keep multiple branches up to date can get tedious.
Is there a third handle on this situation? Maybe some third party tools are available that help make this process easier? If you deal with this situation regularly, what do you suggest?
