Basic set-up of remote git repository on a standard server

remote-git.md

Set-up remote git repository on a standard server

The first thing to do is to install Git on the remote server.

Once you do that the rest of the process is split into three sections:

1. Server set-up
2. Local set-up (push commits)
3. Server (pull commits)

Server set-up

• ssh -pxxxx [email protected] (this is you connecting to your remote server)
• cd ../ (this gets you to the 'absolute root' of the server)
• cd www/..../ (navigate to the directory one level above your website directory - e.g. your website directory being where you would upload your HTML files etc)

Note: if (for example) your web directory is httpdocs then move up one level from there.

The following example assumes httpdocs is your web directory...

• rm -rf httpdocs (remove the web directory - you'll recreate it again in a minute)
• mkdir httpdocs && cd httpdocs (create new web directory folder and move inside it)
• git init (initiate new git repo)
• cd ../ (jump back up a directory level)

The following three commands are the black magic for getting a remote git repo setup:

• git clone --bare httpdocs httpdocs.git
• mv httpdocs httpdocs.backup
• git clone httpdocs.git

Local set-up (push commits)

• cd ~/Desktop/Sites/myWebsite
• git init
• git add *
• git commit -m 'Start of new project'
• git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]:xxxx/www/.../httpdocs.git
• git push origin master

Server (pull commits)

• cd ../
• cd www/..../httpdocs/
• git fetch
• git diff origin/master
• git merge origin/master