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Create Git bare / shared remote repository

13 years ago

by Pieter Vogelaar in Version control

This blog post will describe how to setup a central repository where everybody pulls from and pushes to. This is actually the default work flow in Subversion.

Create a “git” user on your server.

sudo adduser git
nano /etc/group
git:x:1000:myusername,www-data,nobody
sudo mkdir /opt/git_projects
sudo chown git.git /opt/git_projects
sudo chmod 2770 /opt/git_projects
cd /opt/git_projects

Git has a naming convention that repositories that you share with others have a “.git” suffix. Local repositories have just a name. To create a git bare (also called shared remote) repository do the following on the command line.