[Tutor] How to use Git from Windows PC for files on Solaris machine where Git cannot be installed?

boB Stepp robertvstepp at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 19:12:43 CEST 2015


On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 4:21 PM CEST boB Stepp wrote:
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>>I now have Git installed on my Windows 7 PC at work. The files that I
>>wish to put under Git version control exist on a Solaris 10
>>workstation. In the Git bash provided, I can ssh into the Solaris 10
>>machine. I also can the CuteFTP program on my Windows PC to
>>move/copy/etc. files between the two machines. How can I put these
>>Solaris files under version control under these circumstances? I
>>thought I had conceptually seen how to accomplish this via ssh, but if
>>it is doable, my limited knowledge of Git and ssh is insufficient to
>>find the path of success.
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> ... (3) install git if needed ...

It seems Git is needed, but I am not allowed to install it on the
Solaris workstation. So is there a way around this?

>
> But uhhm, this is not Python at all ;-)

I was hoping for clemency on this point due to the earlier thread(s) I
started (Which included Python's unittest module.).



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boB


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