This is a simple resume on bringing online git server repository + client accessing it.

Make sure you have git installed – the easiest way is by using your distribution’s package manager.

Example Server Setup

We assume that we have the following basic straight-forward sever setup :

– Git Server –> server.example.com

– Git Client –> client.example.com

Server-Side project creation

Login to server.example.com (Your future git server) and execute the following commands

# Create system user for the repo
adduser git
# Give some good password
passwd git 

# Login with the newly created user
su - git

# Initialize bare git repo
cd /home/git
git clone --bare my_new_repo my_new_repo.git

Now we have our empty bare project repository.

At this moment, the 2 basic methods we could use to work with this repo are as follows:

– By using the newly created user git and it’s password

– By creating public/private key pairs for user git and give them to the users which will work with this repo

Currently we will use the simplest method of using plain old user/pass authentication through SSH.

 

Client-Side project creation

Login to the client server (client.example.com) and execute the following:

# Create some example project directory
mkdir new_project
cd new_project

# Add some dummy files 
touch 1 2 3 4 5 6 

# Now clone here our newly created repo
git clone git@server1.gryzli.info:/home/git/my_new_repo.git

# Make initial commit and add all of the newly created files (1..6) 
git add .

# Commit them
git commit -m "Sample commit comment"

# Now add our remote repo
git remote add origin git@server.example.com:/home/git/my_new_repo.git

# Finally push all of the changes to the remote repo
git push origin master

 

Optional Client-Side configurations

Here are some basic configs you may want to do after newly installed git.

# Configure your name and email
git config --global user.name "Gryzli Bugbear" 
git config --global user.email "email@example.com"


# Configure global editor
git config --global core.editor vim

# Configure diff tool
git config --global merge.tool vimdiff

# List current configuration settings
git config --list

 

References

Detailed documentation concerning all aspects of GIT.

http://git-scm.com/book/en/