Can you run gitk over SSH/SCP?

Question

I've started editing files over ssh/scp with vim, and it works pretty good.

So given that this can be done; is there any way to use SSH / SCP to load a remote repository into gitk locally?

I tried gitk scp://root@192.168.XXX.XXX//home/demo but I just end up with a dialog that reads Cannot find a git repository here.

I know I can just clone it locally...but...it seems like it would take less time if you could just leave the thing remote...maybe using an nfs share or something like? — leeand00, Nov 22 '16 at 14:17

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 22 '16 at 16:51

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Or you can run the gitk on remote server, if you enable X11 Forwarding, if it is enabled and gitk installed on you server.

ssh -X root@192.168.XXX.XXX "cd /home/demo; gitk"

answered Nov 22 '16 at 16:51

Jakuje

ya could...but that would just take up unnecessary space on your server. – leeand00 Nov 22 '16 at 17:58
It depends what is unnecessary on you use case. – Jakuje Nov 22 '16 at 21:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '16 at 14:19

Even though it is not what you asked, it might help you:

You could simply mount it with sshfs.

sudo sshfs -o allow_other,\
IdentityFile=/home/ysragh/.ssh/id_rsa \
yzzi@wow2d.development.yggdrasil.group:\
/opt/wow2d /home/ysragh/wow2d

And then you can use Vim and/or gitk in your home directory as if you downloaded it :)

I'm doing this like all the time when developing with virtual machine images :)

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