How to git clone a repo in windows from other pc within the LAN?

Question

I have this git repo "c:/xampp/htdocs/**" in my main PC and its IP address is 192.168.0.6. Now I want to git clone this repo from ubuntu-server which running on a Vmware Player in my main PC.

I did

 git clone \\192.168.0.6\c:\xampp\htdocs\**** 

and

 git clone //192.168.0.6/c:/xampp/htdocs/**** 

from ubuntu-server and neither worked.

fatal: could not create work tree dir '****'.: Permission denied 

What did I wrong? what should I do?

Answer 1

You should use the command git daemon to host your repo, like this:

In your computer that will act as a server:

git daemon --base-path=<path_to_folder_containing_project_folder> --export-all

(please note that path_to_folder_containing_project is the folder containing your projects folders, it will provide all projects under that folder)

In your client:

git clone git://<local ip>/<project name>

The cloned repo will have its origin pointing to the server in your LAN, so you may want to use git remote set-url origin to point it to the original origin.

You may want to run git daemon with the --verbose option to get more details in case you run into problems.

Answer 2

Make sure that your c:/xampp/htdocs folder (or sub folders of it) is shared in windows, so you can navigate on the network by this address:

\\192.168.0.6\htdocs 

Then you clone by using file:////. Note that there are four slashes:

git clone file:////192.168.0.6/htdocs/somerepo.git