How to run Git server on Windows?

Question

How can I share a Git repo on Windows? The "correct" ways appear to be to run "git-daemon" (unix specific) or run ssh (unix specific) or run an http front end for Git. If I just have two Windows boxes and don't feel like installing Unix just to run Git, what is the optimal way to share the repos between the two boxes?

Answer 1

If both machines are in the same LAN, you can put the repo in a directory shared via the regular Windows network protocol (SMB).

(Disclaimer: I'm not certain about locking semantics for SMB, so it could be that simultaneous writes to the repo could corrupt it. Then again, the same probably holds for Unix.)

Answer 2

If you want easiest way, you have to see at SCM-manager

The easiest way to share and manage your Git, Mercurial and Subversion repositories over http.

In order to have http-served repository with nice Web-frontend and management you have to have only Java (Java, not JRE)