Setting up a brand new private Git repositoryEdit

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These notes describe my procedure for starting a new project and setting up a private Git repository for it. For projects managed under legacy version control systems see, "Migrating Subversion repositories to Git". For public repositories see "Setting up a brand new public Git repository".

# on the remote (private) machine:
# create a new bare repository
cd /pub/git/path_to_private_repositories
sudo -u git mkdir repo.git
cd repo.git
sudo -u git git --bare init

# on the local machine:
# create a new repository and prepare the initial commit
mkdir foo
cd foo
git init
git add .
git commit -s

# actually push
git remote add origin git.example.com:/pub/git/path_to_private_repositories/repo.git
git config branch.master.remote origin
git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
git push --all