I just joined a new team (very small: four developers in total, with two of those leaving soon). The two original developers set up the git repo on a folder in a Windows network share.

Am I taking crazy pills, or is that a bad idea? Our organization does have github/gitlab/bitbucket available, so is there any good reason not to use those hosted solutions?

  • preciouspuppEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I don’t see how would this be compliant with literally anything.

    • ricecake@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s actually fine, as long as you coordinate with them.
      They offer services that cater to just about any compliance need, including things as annoying as fedramp.

    • TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I would have to agree on this, it seems rather odd if the code repo is confidential or classified to be shared on a Windows Share. The reason why we would use Git services (self-hosted) is so that we have multitude of security services/layers maintained by dedicated team of system administrators such as firewall, service update, data redundancy, backup, active directory and so forth.

      I can see a scenario where people accidentally put classified repos or information that aren’t supposed to be shared on Windows Share where unauthorized users could view that repos.