Git on the server II

I'm doing it wrong

A while back I figured out how to put a Git repository on my server. I’m pretty sure I was doing it wrong then – because at the time I didn’t know anything useful about “bare”.

So I’m trying again, reading along with ToolmanTim’s guide for the impatient

$ ssh myserver.com
$ mkdir /var/git/myapp.git 
$ cd /var/git/myapp.git
$ git --bare init
$ exit

Add the remote repository and push:

$ cd ~/Sites/myapp
$ git remote add origin ssh://myserver.com/var/git/myapp.git
$ git push origin master

Yet when I do this the second time, the git remote add origin fails, saying it’s not really a git repo (at the other end, apparently, but I’m not sure).

Continuing the theme of impatience, I figure (correctly) that I can just write that stuff into my local config file instead of making git do the writing:

[core]
  repositoryformatversion = 0
  filemode = true
  bare = false
  logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
  url = ssh://myserver.com/var/git/myapp.git
  fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

That worked for me.

Ah yes, that’s much better now. Thanks Toolman Tim!