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set-up remote git repository

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remote-git.md

Set-up remote git repository on a standard server

The first thing to do is to install Git on the remote server.

Once you do that the rest of the process is split into three sections:

Server set-up
Local set-up (push commits)
Server (pull commits)

Server set-up

ssh -pxxxx username@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (this is you connecting to your remote server)
cd ../ (this gets you to the ‘absolute root’ of the server)
cd www/..../ (navigate to the directory one level above your website directory - e.g. your website directory being where you would upload your HTML files etc)

Note: if (for example) your web directory is httpdocs then move up one level from there.

The following example assumes httpdocs is your web directory…

rm -rf httpdocs (remove the web directory - you’ll recreate it again in a minute)
mkdir httpdocs && cd httpdocs (create new web directory folder and move inside it)
git init (initiate new git repo)
cd ../ (jump back up a directory level)

The following three commands are the black magic for getting a remote git repo setup:

git clone --bare httpdocs httpdocs.git
mv httpdocs httpdocs.backup
git clone httpdocs.git

Local set-up (push commits)

cd ~/Desktop/Sites/myWebsite
git init
git add *
git commit -m 'Start of new project'
git remote add origin ssh://username@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx/www/.../httpdocs.git
git push origin master

Server (pull commits)

cd ../
cd www/..../httpdocs/
git fetch
git diff origin/master
git merge origin/master