How to Setup a GIT server

remote git repo is actually no difference from a local one. Here’s how to setup a LOCAL git server.

• 1. Install Git
• 2.Add a “git” user
• 3. Create SSH Certified Login
• 4. Initialize a Git Repo
• 5. Ban the Shell Login (Optional)
• 6. Clone Remote Repository
• 7. Git Remote
  • 7.1 How to upload a local directory to remote repo
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1. Install Git

After setting up a linux system, e.g. Ubuntu server 16.06, install git:

sudo apt-get install git

2.Add a “git” user

Create a git user by:

sudo adduser git

3. Create SSH Certified Login

Collect all the public keys of possible users/machines (in their id_rsa.pub respectively). Put all the collected public keys in file /home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys.

• e.g. on a remote server, type ssh-copy-id git@[you-git-server-ip-address] to automatically add the current server’s public key to the authorized_keys of the git server.

4. Initialize a Git Repo

After logging in with git, select a folder, e.g. /home/sample, cd into this folder and type:

sudo git init --bare sample.git

With the command above, Git will generate a bare repository. Since the Git repo on this server only aim for sharing, it doesn’t allow other users to login into the server and make changes. Therefore, we should set the owner:group of the repo as git:

sudo chown -R git:git sample.git

5. Ban the Shell Login (Optional)

Based on the security concern, our git account is not supposed to allow SSH login. So we can acheive this by modifying /etc/passwd file, in which we may find:

git:x:1001:1001:,,,:/home/git:bin/bash

we change this to:

git:x:1001:1001:,,,:/home/git:/usr/bin/git-shell

6. Clone Remote Repository

Now we are able to clone remote git repo(s) on you local computer by:

git clone git@[you-git-server-ip]:sample/sample.git

7. Git Remote

On the remote computer, just try pull/push etc. to use the remote repository.

7.1 How to upload a local directory to remote repo

Reference:

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