How to “Git” your own repository

First, you’ll need to install the client. If you’re using Ubuntu, you’ll want apt-get. Obviously RHEL based systems, use yum. If you do not have either, you’re hopefully smart enough to install git from source.

Great. Assuming that went successfully, you should now be able to run “git” and see the usage output.

Creating new repositories:

# mkdir myrepo
# cd myrepo
# git –bare init

Initialize and Commit

If you have an existing project in a folder, you can commit this as an initial import into your new repository. To do this, cd into the folder in question and do the following:

# git init
# git add .
# git commit -a -m ‘my first push’
# git remote add origin git@your.server.name:myrepo
# git push origin master

Creating an SSH key

You’ll want to create an SSH key to allow you to quickly pull and push to your remote repository.

# ssh-keygen -t dsa
# scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub git@your.server.name:
# ssh git@your.server.name
# cat id_dsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
# chmod 644 .ssh/authorized_keys

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