Using Git

Setting up a remote git repository

This is how to set up a remote git repository (a mirror) simply via ssh.

It assumes you have a server set up with SSH, and that you have sudo access to it.

1. On the remote server, create a git user (sudo adduser git).
2. Create a directory /var/repos/git owned by the git user.
3. Add your local public key to the git user's .ssh/authorized_keys file, so you can SSH as that user.
4. Assuming your local git repository is named myrepo, create a directory /var/repos/git/myrepo.git owned by the git user.
5. As the git user, in that new directory, run git init --bare.
6. Locally on your machine, go into your repo and run git add remote myremotename git@myserver:/var/repos/git/myrepo.git
7. Run git push -u myremotename main (or whatever your main branch is)

There, now you have a remote mirror on a server you control.