On a CentOS Linux machine, developers have user accounts. They need to be able to use git on the local machine while logged in via ssh, but is there a way to prevent them from cloning their repositories to other machines?
No. If a user can ssh to a machine and they have read permissions on a repository, they can copy the repository (using rsync or scp), and that is all that is necessary to clone a git repository.
Technically, no. You could probably remove git-upload-pack from the system which would make this harder by making git clone stop working, but a simple scp of the entire directory would still be sufficient.
ensure other machines are not writable / accessible, but other than that no.
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I have my site stored on a remote Linux server and I use FTP to download, edit, and re-upload them. I am currently able to use the git bash to connect and upload the files (like a local repository) to bitbucket (my remote repository) but I was wondering if its possible to use one of the graphical git programs to connect to the server and be able to push/pull/manage the changes just to make my life simpler.
If you have a local clone of that Linux server repo, you can use it in combination of any GUI (SourceTree, GitKraken, Tower, ...) installed locally.
That is easier than trying to install a GUI in an environment where you only have headless (ie shell or ftp) access.
I am a Git GUI user. I don't have an issue using it for my local development. However, now we have a server with a Git repository. Can I remotely push, pull and diff by using the Git GUI client to access that?
Currently, I am SSHing to the Linux server, and use a Git command to do all the Git commands. But I found it very difficulty when it comes to diff. That's why I think is there any solution for me using the Git GUI client access remote repository and do the Git command with a Git client.
I want to be able to mount a remote server in a Git repository.
Current we only have to open the Git repository in our local disk. For example, the C:\www\repo.git file. How about if I want to access 10.10.10.10/home/www/.git and do all the Git commands in the Git client?
Solutions are open for OS X and Windows.
Aside from VNC / remote X (which is an obvious solution and therefore not worth putting in an answer), the only alternative I can find is Visual Studio Code's new remote development support.
You can connect to a server via ssh (from within Visual Studio Code), and then Visual Studio Code's Git features work natively. The interface is fairly basic however - in particular there is no history view and you can't rebase, cherry-pick, etc. from the GUI. It's basically for staging commits.
This extension gives you a proper git graph view. It's pretty good.
If your server has it enabled, you can use XForwarding to display a GUI executed on the remote machine on your local machine.
On the server-side, this means that you need to have the proper tools installed (e.g., git-gui, which means that you also need Tcl/Tk installed, which means that you also need the X infrastructure installed).
You also must enable Xforwarding, by making sure that you have a line like the following in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
To use that on your local Linux machine, you would usually use the -X flag to enable XForwarding for a given connection:
shiro#local:~$ ssh -X gituser#gitserver
gituser#gitserver:~$ cd repo.git
gituser#gitserver:~/repo.git$ git gui
On your local OS X machine, you would instead use -Y:
shiro#applejoice:~$ ssh -Y gituser#gitserver
gituser#gitserver:~$ cd repo.git
gituser#gitserver:~/repo.git$ git gui
You need an Xserver running on your local machine, in order to use XForwarding. While this is not a problem on Linux (or OS X), it gets complicated for Win32. There are tutorials on the web for setting up and using Xservers under Win32 (e.g., Xming).
First, when it comes to diff, you can simply git fetch your repo, and do the diff locally (with git gui), since you have the all history.
Second, if you have ssh access to the server, you don't need to actually open an ssh session.
A simple git command git#gitserver:/path/to/git/project.git is enough (repalce "command" with clone/push/pull/fetch)
That means the fetch is easy.
See Git on the Server - Setting Up the Server for an ssh setup, at least for Linux or Mac.
For Windows, you have alternative ssh server you can consider, like copssh-free-edition.
But now our team is having this issue, and I am the only person in charge for the GIT. That's why I looks for help how to solve this
Then you would need to ssh to the server, git add and git commit there in the repo, then go back to your local workstation, clone or fetch, and do the diff there. –
Problem: Need to view Git history visually in windows, repository is on remote Linux server (Ubuntu).
Question: What are two easy ways to view the git repository on remote linux server -> in Windows?
I have initially tried mirroring the remote mirror, then viewing it locally - updating when needed, but I get an error when connecting,
git clone --mirror username#serveraddress.com:/home/username/projectfolder
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.
Again I'm on Windows using Git Bash, trying to clone a remote repo that's on Linux.
Thanks in advance.
There is no importance where the repo resides.
As the error said,
1- make sure you have the address right
2- make sure you have access to the address
I am fairly new to Git. I have worked locally, but today i need to setup a remote machine with the git. I have no idea how.
Basically my setup is like this.
I have a windows machine which has a vmware player installed, which is used to connect to the dev ubuntu linux machine where out Git repo is situated. I putty to the dev machine and do all the operation related to git with username common to all the developers username : dev
Now there is a new rollup that is created in the dev git repo which is required to be deployed on our ubuntu linux test server. I have my account in test server. username:ash.
What are the steps that should be followed to setup this. I have some time back had a discussion with one of my colleague who had shared about using SSH key. As he is the only contact person who is not available, I have no info how to proceed. I have created the SSH key.
login to the machine as "ash".
ash#gitserver:~$
create a new directory that will contain the git-repository
ash#gitserver:~$ mkdir rollout.git
change into the directory
ash#gitserver:~$ cd rollout.git
initialize the git repository
ash#gitserver:~/rollout.git$ git init --bare
go back to your dev machine and clone the newly created repository or add it to the "remote"s of an existing git repo. use "ssh://ash#gitserver/~/rollout.git" as the remote-url.
[update for cloning]: make sure that there is not already a "rollout" directory in the directory where you want to clone to. for simplicity, create an empty directory "foo/" and try to clone into that directory. you can then move the cloned repository to wherever you want to.
push changes to the new repository.......done!
the use of ssh-keys will make authentication simpler and/or more secure but is in no ways necessary (or related) to setting up the git repository.
I have a small machine running Debian and can access it via ssh -l user host. Now I created a git repository in a folder on that machine.
The thing that I can not figure out is: What do I have to do, that git would let me access that repository in the way git push ssh://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git +master
Or in other words: what means ssh://, and how do I set up access to a repository using that protocol?
Thank you for your help/hints!
I've been through this whole problem before. I ended up settling on gitolite to manage git & ssh. It's very easy to install (if you use the package method) and it makes maintaining repositories easy.
See this Pro Git.
In particular, see Chapter 4, "Git on the server".
It's quite easy to setup =)
Lot's of people use gitosis for this. But that does not support ~you.