How To Create and Use a Remote git Repository

git is a version-control system, that is very powerful, and pretty easy to use. There are many advanced tutorials on it's use, here are a simple bunch of commands that I commonly use.

on your remote server, create a space for the remote repository

mkdir /home/roq/lang/sql/myapp.git && cd /home/roq/lang/sql/myapp.git
git --bare init
exit

create git repository and add files to it

git init
git add .
git commit -m "My first repository"

add location of remote repository

Note that :2094 can be dropped if you use the standard ssh port

git remote add origin ssh://roq@yourdomain.org:2094/home/roq/lang/sql/myapp.git

push local repository onto your remote repository

git push origin master

to make changes to your files, first

git checkout master

...then make your changes

once you're done, push your changes back to the remote repository

git commit -a -m "Next release"

to collect changes made by others from the remote repository

git pull origin master

to remove a file from the git repository (actually, it makes git forget about the file) - note that this will actually delete the physical file if it's still there

git rm OLDFILE

for someone else to create a copy of your repository

git clone ssh://roq@yourdomain.org:2094/home/roq/lang/sql/myapp.git

to get the latest from the remote repository

git pull

to exclude files or directories

edit the .git/info/exlude file, for example, here I wanted to exclude all subdirectories that start with 2009 and a few other files that I needed in that directory, but didn't want checked-in:

2009*
*.pl
*.exe
*.lnk

to keep your "remote" repository on a USB key

Note that you'd still have to create the directory on your USB key and run git --bare init from within that directory. Here I have a remote repository on a TrueCrypt volume that I always mount as M: on Windows:

git remote add origin /m/git_repository/myapp.git

On Linux, I mount the same TrueCrypt volume as /media/truecrypt1:

git remote add origin /media/truecrypt1/git_repository/myapp.git

How To Create and Use a Remote git Repository

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