在共享主机上搭建git服务

GitHub is awesome, really awesome for open source projects and for projects with multiple people. In fact, if you use your own git setup for an open source project, you are most likely hindering your project’s progress and wasting your time.

On the other side of the coin, if you are a lone shark and you don’t need GitHub’s awesome social features, I have news for you: you can host your own git repositories really easily and on the cheap side.

Remote Setup

If you are like me, you probably have a DreamHost, TextDrive or some other cheap shared hosting account with ssh access. What you might not know is that is all you need to host your own private git repositories.

ssh [email protected]
mkdir -p ~/git/yourproject.git
cd ~/git/yourproject.git
git --bare init

That is it. Your git repository is now setup. Not too hard eh? You could put that anywhere but a folder named git makes sense to me.

Local Setup

So your remote server is now setup, but how do you use it? Glad you asked. Open up a new tab (or window) or quit your ssh connection and cd to wherever you want to setup your project locally.

mkdir yourproject
cd yourproject
git init
git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]/~/git/yourproject.git
touch .gitignore
git add .
git commit -m "Initial Commit" 
git push origin master

At this point you have now pushed to your remote repository and are almost good to go. The last thing is you need to add the following on your local machine to .git/config in your project.

[branch "master"]
 remote = origin
 merge = refs/heads/master

The End

That is it. You can now push and pull at will. If you want to give anyone else commit access, just add their ssh key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and you can work on the project with a friend. Setting up your own git repositories is really easy, as you can see, so don’t be afraid.