Tahoe as git remote

[Matthieu Rakotojaona]

Le vendredi 23 octobre 2015 04:18:57 CEST, Jean-Rene David a écrit :
> Hello, 
>
> I would like to use tahoe as a storage for my
> personal git repositories. The idea would be to
> have a local git repo for live work, and a
> tahoe-based bare remote where I could push my work
> and clone from. 
>
> From the little I understand of tahoe, this could
> be a viable use-case since most files in a git
> repo are small and unmutable. 
>
> The problem I would like to solve is how to get
> git to write its objects to tahoe. Is sshfs my
> only option? I read that this may not be entirely
> reliable. 
>
> Are there other options? I'm perfectly willing to
> write some code. But I'm not sure where to start. 
>
> Thanks, 

Hello,

There is also the possibility to use

$ tahoe cp -r /path/to/git/repo tahoe:path/to/git/repo

which will copy all the git files to your grid.

If you do it directly (ie share your working directory), then tahoe will 
not be considered as a "true" remote so it may not be advisable. Instead 
what you can do is have a central list of *bare* repositories on your 
machine, like ~/repos, which you configure as a remote of your working 
repository:

~/repos$ mkdir projectX
~/repos$ cd projectX
~/repos/projectX$ git init --bare
~/repos/projectX$ cd /path/to/working/repo
path/to/working/repo$ git remote add origin ~/repos/projectX 

And then you can synchronize ~/repos/projectX to tahoe. You can even use 
pre-receive and post-receive hooks to automate it.