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Oh, my name’s Michael by the way.

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So a couple of weeks ago I received an email asking how to go about setting up a Git server on Linux. This is actually pretty straight forward, provided you are familiar with Linux. I made a quick video describing the process:

In this video we end up accessing the repository on the server through SSH. There are alternatives to this, such as WebDav, or the built in Git protocol. However, everything I have ever worked on has used SSH to access the repository. It’s also how GitHub does it.

The basic steps:

1. Connect to the server
2. Make sure that all your developers have a user account on the server (adduser)
3. Create a group on the system for your developers (addgroup)
4. Add all the developers to that group. I did this by manually editing /etc/group on the server, but the more correct way would be to use the useradd command. That way you are less likely to mess up the group file.
5. Create a directory in which to put the git repository.
6. Set the group ownership to the group you just created (chgrp)
7. Make the directory group read/writable, with the sticky bit set so subdirectories inherit the group permissions (chmod)
8. Initialise a bare, shared repository
9. ????
10. Profit!

Hope that helps a bit!