Git-ty up (Part 2)

Setting up your own Git server. I learned how to setup using this guide. I am duplicating the guide here for a quick reference.

1. Installing GIT
• If it doesn't exist on ubuntu. For some reason, GIT needs it.
• touch /etc/inittab
• sudo apt-get install git-arch git-cvs git-svn git-email git-daemon-run git-core curl python-setuptools
  
• sudo adduser --system --shell /bin/sh --gecos 'GIT Version Control' --group --disabled-password --home /path/to/git_home_directory git_user_name (set up a user to handle all Git request)
2. Installing gitosis-admin (for user management)
• In any directory
• git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git
• cd gitosis
• sudo python setup.py install
  
3. Setting up initial user
• On local machine generate a public/private ssh key it it doesn't already exist
• ssh-keygen -t rsa
• Copy the public key to the Git server and put it in a publicly readable folder
  
• scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@git_server:/tmp/id_rsa.pub
• Back on Git server (as a user with sudo privileges)
  
• sudo -H -u git gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub
• Git uses SSH as the default transport to communicate with the server, so make sure user_git is allowed in the sshd AllowUsers directive.
  
4. Adding users
• On local machine with the private key
• Some of us will run SSH on a non standard port so it may be wise to create a .ssh/config file and add a directive to establish connection to the Git server.
• vi ~/.ssh/config
• Host git_server
  User git
  Hostname <ip of git server>
  Port <port ssh is listening on>
• Quit and save.
• Clone the gitosis-admin file for user management.
• gitosis-clone git_server:gitosis-admin.git
• cd gitosis-admin
• Copy the new users SSH public keyfile to the keydir folder with the format user@server.pub. The .pub is absolutely necessary otherwise the user will not be added. The user@server is the name which appears after the == IN the public keyfile.
• vi gitosis.conf
• Add new users you would like to administer gitosis or keep them for other repositories.
• Quit and save.
• git commit -a -m "Whatever commit message you like to add"
• git push origin master:refs/heads/master
  
  
5. Adding repositories
• Go back to the gitosis-admin folder on your local machine.
• vi gitosis.conf
• On a new line, add
• [group repo_name]
  writable = repo_name
  members = user1@server user2@server
  
• Quit and save.
• git commit -a -m "Whatever commit message you like to add"
• git push origin master:refs/heads/master

In the final part, I'll list a few basic commands to get started.