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stackdot / NodeJS-Git-Server

A multi-tenant git server using NodeJS
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Hosting bare git repos on a separate server? #47

Closed saoudrizwan closed 5 years ago

saoudrizwan commented 5 years ago

Hello, thank you so much for the amazing repo.

I understand that in your implementation, you use git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack processes to allow the client and server to talk to each other (figure out what packets the other needs, etc.) To my knowledge, this git command accepts a local directory, but what if I host all my bare git repositories on a separate server, like an AWS S3 bucket? Could I stream a remote bare repo to these git commands, that then stream the necessary packets to the client? I don't want to host all my bare git repos on my heroku instance, since the storage is ephemeral and limited. Any guidance would be appreciated!

ghost commented 5 years ago

I think you need to check out the snapshots functionality on AWS. S3 is for assets that don’t change such as images, videos etc - stuff you might want to download usually. This isn’t really the right forum for this kind of question though as it’s more about cloud architecture than a node library.