I just joined a new team (very small: four developers in total, with two of those leaving soon). The two original developers set up the git repo on a folder in a Windows network share.

Am I taking crazy pills, or is that a bad idea? Our organization does have github/gitlab/bitbucket available, so is there any good reason not to use those hosted solutions?

  • Zargontapel@latte.isnot.coffeeOPEnglish
    2·
    2 年前

    I can’t exactly put my finger on it, but something feels off. For example, on my first day, I wasn’t able to view the files in Windows Explorer (or clone the repo, actually), so the other dev just gave me a zip file of the repo. There’s something fishy going on, and I’m trying to figure it out.

    • Los@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      Since it’s on a network share, there’s the extra overhead of managing the file system permissions. And you probably hadn’t received access at the point.

      • Zargontapel@latte.isnot.coffeeOPEnglish
        2·
        2 年前

        That probably is the case, but in my mind I’m also questioning if they’re backing it up regularly, what prevents someone from going in and deleting the files, etc.

        • Los@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          2 年前

          Sure, let’s hope they have a backup policy in place for best practice. But also it is kinda decentralized anyway. Every dev is going to have their local repo, and that is essentially a backup.