How to set up git hosting on COMPSOC

If you already have a local git repository that you want to host on compsoc, then you can skip this first step.

Initialise a new git repository in the directory of the project you want to host (this will be the copy you have at home, for example)

[simon@simon ~]$ cd ~/project/foo/
[simon@simon foo (master #)]$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/simon/project/foo/.git/

Log in to compsoc, and create a new directory where you want your repository stored and initialise a bare git repository there.

[simon@forgetful ~]$ mkdir foo.git
[simon@forgetful ~]$ cd foo.git/
[simon@forgetful foo.git]$ git --bare init
Initialized empty Git repository in /data/home/simon/foo.git/
[simon@forgetful foo.git (BARE:master)]$

On your home machine you will need to add compsoc as a remote, here I've referred to compsoc as "origin".

[simon@simon foo (master #)]$ git remote add origin simon@forgetful.compsoc.man.ac.uk:foo.git

Do some editing, commit some changes locally (i.e. at home).

[simon@simon foo (master #)]$ vim hello_world.c
[simon@simon foo (master #)]$ git add hello_world.c
[simon@simon foo (master #)]$ git commit -m "Added test file"
[master (root-commit) 76e25d7] Added test file
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 hello_world.c

Use git push to push your local changes to compsoc.

[simon@simon foo (master)]$ git push origin master
Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 302 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To simon@forgetful.compsoc.man.ac.uk:foo.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

If you want to put your git repository on the internet, either copy or symlink the foo.git directory to be in your public_html directory and run git update-server-info.

[simon@forgetful public_html]$ cd ~/public_html/
[simon@forgetful public_html]$ ln -s ../foo.git/
[simon@forgetful ~]$ cd foo.git/
[simon@forgetful foo.git (BARE:master)]$ git --bare update-server-info
[simon@forgetful foo.git (BARE:master)]$ chmod a+x hooks/post-update

Now anyone can come along and clone your git repository.

[simon@simon ~]$ cd /tmp
[simon@simon tmp]$ git clone http://compsoc.man.ac.uk/~simon/foo.git
Cloning into foo...
[simon@simon tmp]$ cd foo/
[simon@simon foo (master)]$ cat hello_world.c
#include 

int main() {
    printf("hello, world!\n");
    return 0;
}

Thanks for reading!