git-references

USEFUL FOR SETTING UP A LINUX SERVER AS A REMOTE GIT SERVER

If you’re using GitHub, GitLab, Visual Studio Team Services, TFS, or another service along those lines, none of this applies to you.

If you want your remote server to be a Linux or Unix machine, the following information might be useful.

create a new remote only git repo

To create a new repository named foo.git:

cd /sccs/git
mkdir foo.git
cd foo.git
git init --bare --shared=2664

--bare ensures that the repository only contains the version control information and doesn’t have any local files. This is necessary to be able to clone and push to it.

--shared=2664 sets the core.sharedRepository which forces git to do all new file creation with 2664 permissions. This helps avoid issues with multiple people pushing to the repo.

apply the above to an existing repository

Assuming that foo.git already exists and we need to fix it, we can do the following:

cd /sccs/git/foo.git
chgrp -R swdev *
chmod -R ug+rws *

Edit the file /sccs/git/foo.git/config.

Under the [core] area, add the following line:

sharedRepository = 2664

push local code to the remote git server

Follow “create a new remote only git repo”.

In your local Git repo, add a new remote origin:

git remote add origin ssh://<username>@<serverurl>/sccs/git/foo.git

Then push each of your branches to your new origin:

git push origin branchname