Need to pull some changes from a friend’s local Git repo without having to push to origin? This post will show you how to do that.
You can access a local Git repo using SSH, but setting up keys and such will probably take some time. For a quick-and-dirty solution, HTTP is much easier.
On the machine you want to use as the server, navigate to your project and then into the .git directory.
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$ cd /path/to/project
$ cd .git
Stand up a HTTP server using Python’s SimpleHTTPServer module. You can use any port number you like.
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$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5000
You’ll need the IP address of this machine as well. (Use ifconfig)
Make sure you can access the python server from a browser on the client machine. You should be able to see something like this at http://ip.address:5000/
On the client, you should be now able to access the git repo over HTTP as though it were a normal git remote.
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$ git ls-remote http://ip.address:5000
$ git pull http://ip.address:5000 master
Add it as a remote to avoid typing out the entire IP each time.
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$ git remote add http://ip.address:5000 local-foo
$ git pull local-foo master
Original post by Timothy Andrew - check out Timothy's Blog