Question

I have jumped on the GIT bandwagon lately. I am confused about which DVCS hosting to use. I am in a notion that i can setup my own thing on a dedicated/vps server.

So, my question is that, how to setup my own internal remote repository management system on the dedicated server that i have?

Please guide.

Regards

Answer 1

On the server run the following command in a directory you want to use…

git init --bare

This creates an empty/bare repository on the server.

On the client run the following command in an existing git repository (assume you know how to do this)…

git remote add myserver <url/path>

This adds a remote / link to your server. Path can be local, remote (http, ssh, etc).

• On a local file system use: ~/myrepo/example.git
• Using ssh: ssh://[e-mail]/~/myrepo/example.git
• Using http: http://[e-mail]/myrepo/example.git

For more info on setting up git over ssh see the following article.

To push code to your server do the following…

git push myserver master

This pushes your commits up to the remote server. Where ‘myserver’ is the alias you gave to your remote location

git pull myserver master

With git pull you download/pull all the commits from the server.

Edit Github is great and has a lot of additional features, but it is good to know how to set up a git repository yourself.