Last night’s Refactor meeting was great. A big thanks to Austin for his detailed Git talk, and to David for demoing some git repo sharing.

Austin has posted his slides on his website:

http://uberhip.com/projects/presentations.html

And you can clone it from the repo with: git clone http://uberhip.com/git/gitintro.git

Earlier in the day David and I were poking around with git-daemon, getting the parameters Just So and experimenting with basic repo sharing. It crossed my mind that the process for selecting the git-daemon arguments and kicking off the process should be automated with a script; David, though, was way ahead of me and quickly had a working version running.

We now have a nice little Ruby script that makes sharing a git repo snake simple. David posted the code to the Refactor mailing list.

You just drop the script in your bin dir, and when you want to share a git repo you cd to the root of the working directory and run share_git_repo (or whatever you’ve named it).

It will figure out the correct base path and display the URL needed by the client.