Dev Code Backup on NT 4.0?

[Shintaro1969]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone was using NT 4.0 Workstation to create their own programs. And how they back them up to something like GitHub.

My backup system at the moment is convoluted and I need a server running, which I don't want to do.
MS Source Safe -> Samba Windows Share on Server -> InSync to MS OneDrive.

Does anyone know of an NT 4.0 GitHub type of client that I can simply go from NT 4 to GitHub?


Cheers.

[davidg]

I'm doing development on NT4 at the moment and would love to find a git client that works there, but I think its unlikely such a thing exists.

At the moment I'm keeping all the code on a network drive so I can access it from other newer systems that do have a git client.

[vbdasc]

I was wondering if anyone was using NT 4.0 Workstation to create their own programs.

I was, many years ago.

And how they back them up to something like GitHub.

Github didn't yet exist back then.

My backup system at the moment is convoluted and I need a server running, which I don't want to do.
MS Source Safe -> Samba Windows Share on Server -> InSync to MS OneDrive.

For NT4, this seems good enough to me. Continue using what works, if you ask me.

Does anyone know of an NT 4.0 GitHub type of client that I can simply go from NT 4 to GitHub?

Lately, Github became quite anal-retentive about encryption, removing old ciphers etc. . This means that if you're hoping to connect NT4 to Github directly, you're out of luck.

[vbdasc]

I'm doing development on NT4 at the moment and would love to find a git client that works there, but I think its unlikely such a thing exists.

Did you try https://web.archive.org/web/20090615000 ... 080413.exe ? It's a sufficiently old version to have some chance to support NT4. I myself haven't tried it, it's only a suggestion.

[Shintaro1969]

I'm doing development on NT4 at the moment and would love to find a git client that works there, but I think its unlikely such a thing exists.

Did you try https://web.archive.org/web/20090615000 ... 080413.exe ? It's a sufficiently old version to have some chance to support NT4. I myself haven't tried it, it's only a suggestion.

Unfortunately, it didn't work.

I am downloading a version of Cygwin to see if I can openssh and git from there.

[davidg]

I suspect any version old enough to run on NT4 is going to be old enough to run into problems with servers expecting modern cryptography.

There are ways of building modern OpenSSL for 95/NT4 so I getting git going properly wouldn't be impossible. Being stuck on Visual C++ 2003 (or IIRC 2005 if you're willing to statically link the CRT) makes things difficult though.