What would you use for a git network share for Linux kernel development?

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Hello everyone,

I do work on Linux kernels with several different computers and different installs of Linux. Having a remote way to access the git repos and the time I have to git fetch and pull would be really helpful. I have 18 different copies of the linux kernel spread among 3 different computers with at least 6 different installs since I work with a large patchset that is trying to get upstream.

I wanted to know what others use in this scenario. Been looking at NFS but there are fundamental issues with that from what I read. I want to avoid keeping an ssh key on an unencrypted partition. (Yes, the Linux kernel uses email, but I like to keep a remote backup + I need to do local builds + my company uses gitlab and their runners.)

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For read only access, you can use the daemon provided by git to fetch/pull on your local network. I use this to keep a local mirror of repos I use on my nas.

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Why not host your local instance of GitLab? You’re already familiar with the tool and may benefit from learning the sysadmin side of it.

Deployment via docker is a single line, make sure to map some local storage to persist the data.

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I usually just use SSH for this.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server

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It takes a while to update. I want a single place to access my local copies whenever I need to pull or work on things.