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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Our organization does have github/gitlab/bitbucket available

Do you mean "cloud services"? Maybe your colleagues don't want them there.

For PCI-DSS relevant code, we only use internal systems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That may be the case, but the original engineers have made other highly questionable decisions: the backend service was written in Java 8...just last year!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That doesn't sound questionable, but somewhere between stubborn and stupid. Unless that thing is supposed to be deployed to a heavily outdated system where nothing newer than Java8 will run, that is.