Creating a New Remote Git Repository

01 Oct 2012

When not using GitHub to host your Git repositories, you don’t have the luxury of simply cloning once you’ve created the repository. There are a few extra steps documented here:

Remote Environment

mkdir NewRepo.git
cd NewRepo.git

# Create an empty repository
git --bare init

# Set the repository as shared
git config core.sharedrepository 1

# Keep the remote repository in control
git config receive.denyNonFastforwards true

sudo chown -R youruser *
sudo chgrp -R youruser *

Local Environment

mkdir NewRepo
cd NewRepo

git init
git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]:/repositories/NewRepo.git

# Give us something to commit
touch README.md

git add .
git commit -m 'Initial commit'

# This will establish the master branch allowing others to clone the repository from now on
git push origin master