Question

How do I create a git repo on my shared hostgator?
Got SSH access by the way.

Answer 1

Assuming Git is installed…

git init --bare /path/to/repo

If Git isn’t installed, you won’t be able to push directly to the hosted repository, but you can make a snapshot available by doing the following (from here):

First, on your local machine, run these commands (this assumes your repo is at ~/foo locally):

git clone --bare ~/foo ~/foo.git
cd ~/foo.git
git --bare update-server-info

Then, copy the resulting foo.git directory into your webserver’s public_html directory. After doing so, you should be able to pull from the http://yourserver.com/you/foo.git or the like. Any time you want to update the snapshot, you’d need to repeat the above steps.