Git on a Windows Lan

Question

My colleagues and I are thinking of giving git a try and see if we can easily move to it. We work on a Windows-only environment. On our own machines we already have git set

Answer 1

For a pure command-line solution, did you try

 git clone file:///local/path/to/repo-name.git

In your case:

 git clone file:///\\mymachine/shared/repo.git

It should work just fine.

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Update August 2014 (4 years later), Git 2.1

Commit c2369bd by Eric Sunshine and Cezary Zawadka (czawadka) means a simpler UNC path now work:

Windows: allow using UNC path for git repository

Eric Sunshine fixed mingw_offset_1st_component() to return consistently "foo" for UNC "//machine/share/foo", cf this thread.

So this should now work:

git clone //mymachine/shared/repo.git