I’ve been playing with the Git this week.
Trying it locally is all very well, but I now want to try it from various locations and computers. I guess I need a central repository…
Before signing up to GitHub or Unfuddle, I thought it might be fun to see if I could use it with Amazon’s S3 cloud storage.
I only just got this set up, but it appears to be working!
In fact, I cheated, and used JungleDisk which gives me a file system wrapper on to S3.
Basic steps as follows:
- Sign up for Jungle Disk
- Download client software and install
- JungleDisk gives you drive that links to S3 (my disk in the cloud!)
- Now we just use standard git commands to set up the remote repository (thanks to Toolman Tim for nice instructions)
- Use
git --bear init ...to set up a blank repository on the cloud disk - Use
git remote add ...thengid push ...to move local repos to cloud disk. - On some other machine, also install JungleDisk. Then do a
git clone ...to get a working copy of the code.
I like this idea because
- Amazon S3 is cheap
- Amazon is low maintenance and has fail-over (unlike my Linux server)
- JungleDisk works on Mac, Linux and Windows
- I own the S3 account (no JungleDisk)
- I can still access the S3 using other tools and APIs (such as AWS::S3)
Disclaimer!
I don’t know enough about Git or S3 to know if this is a good idea! Anyone got any thoughts?
