Creating a Private Git Server

So you want to write some super secret code? You want to keep it off public git servers? This is not as difficult as you might think to do. As a matter a fact if you are committing to git locally in a shell then you already have the git client setup.

I assume you have access to a Ubuntu Linux server that you can spin up or have one laying around your pad.

How do I set up a git server?

1. Boot up a Linux Cloud Server.
2. Configure user permissions.
3. Install git-core.
4. Profit.

You are probably saying what? That's it? Yup! That's really it to get started.

Boot up a Linux Cloud Server

Now that we have a server we can login and update all the packages.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Alright we will call this server my.gitserver.net

Configure user permissions

To configure the system my suggestion is to create a user called: git 

sudo adduser git

Adding your public key to the server will allow you to bypass using a password.

This can be any username that can log into the server.

Install git-core

sudo apt-get install git-core

Easy right?

Setup git project

Login to the server as the git user and create the project.

ssh git@my.gitserver.net

mkdir super-secret-project.git

cd super-secret-project.git

git --bare init

Profit

So now we need our super secret project on a machine with some commits to push up to my.gitserver.net 

mkdir super-secret-project

cd super-secret-project

git init

We need to add the remote for the server to our local repo now.

git remote add origin git@my.gitserver.net:super-secret-project.git

touch somefile.txt

git add somefile.txt

git commit -m "my first commit to my private git server"

git push origin master

Once we push the code up now that commit is now saved somewhere else. 

Suggestions

• Always back up your data.
• Harden the security on your server

Resources:

• http://tumblr.intranation.com/post/766290565/how-set-up-your-own-private-git-server-linux
• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652414