Use a remote repository that is personally hosted without cloning it?

[Exia]

At work we have an central git repository for our web app, and each developer has a clone of it on a VM where they do work. Is there a way to connect Source Tree to the remote repository without making a local clone of that repository?

[Seth · Accepted solution]

Short answer, no.

Thechnically, you could mount the remote repository as network storage, but this is error prone. See this question, and the others linked from it: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/275021

[Exia]

Thanks for the quick response. Would you happen to know of git gui that has this feature or if its planned for SourceTree?

[Seth]

It's not a Git GUI problem, it's a Git problem. The foundational, command-line software is the source of those errors. The developers of Git would probably tell you that trying to manage a git repository on network storage is exactly what git was designed to avoid, regardless of your specific situation. Regardless, someone could, theoretically, develop a Git GUI that connected to a remote server over SSH and issued Git commands there. I don't know of any though.