git: how to properly share local copy between multiple PCs

Question

I pull'ed some public repository, made few changes here and there. I committed them to my local copy. I regularly pull from remote to get changes from the public repo. Occasionally, I work on that local copy from different PC's and I need to move entire source code between PCs so that they share exactly the same changes. A few times I messed up copying and lost some of my local changes. So my question is: how can I set up some sort of local git server on one of the PCs so that I could still pull changes from that public repo and commit my local changes to my local git server so that I would be able to synchronize my work between multiple PCs without copying full source three?

I use Windows

Answer 1

Remember that a git repository is ultimately just a set of files on disk.

You can put your main local git repository on a network share and then push / pull with repos on other computers on the same LAN.

This has worked well for me in the past (main repo on a server, other repos on laptops, desktop PCs etc.)

Answer 2

You can also just host your fork of the project on any of the popular git hosters (GitHub, gitorious) and add them as a new remote. Then use this repository as your base.

You also should try to get your patches back into mainline. This safes you exactly that pain and helps others.