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.
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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. –
So I have been plagued with this weird git problem that myself and a few other developers have not been able to solve. Here it is:
I created a bare repo for managing website changes using git on test server.
For this example the repo is here: /home/website/website.git
The website public root would be here: /home/website
I created the repo by doing this command: git init --bare
inside the git repo directory "website.git"
Next I have my local repo on a machine elsewhere. This is a standard git repo. I build the site get it ready to deploy. When its ready I push it to the bare repo. From my local repo.
There is a post-receive hook that checks the latest file tree out into the public root of the website. So when I change things on the local repo and test them in the localhost environment, once satisfied I can push them to the live server.
Here is the problem I face:
I can push fine. No issues. All works as expected. Code gets checked out to public root. Everybody is happy and goes on with their life.
BUT!!!:
The site is a CMS site. Users log in to it and upload things. Files get created on the public root of the website which is the GIT_WORK_TREE.
So NBD right?! I can just commit the files every now and then from the live bare repo and pull them back to my local environment like I have before. So I log into SSH on the server. Navigate to /home/website/website.git
Then run this command:
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/website/ git add ../
I get this mess:
error: unable to create temporary sha1 filename ./objects/cb: No such file or directory
error: error_log: failed to insert into database
error: unable to index file error_log
fatal: adding files failed
I have done this before on other servers and it worked fine from what I remember. So I was like WTF, must be something strange on this server. I went to another server I have and replicated the EXACT same steps. Got the EXACT same problem. So now I fear I am loosing my sanity and maybe these previous git experiences are all made up in my head.... *Well, lets not go that far yet.... :)
Maybe somebody can help me out here. I have used git plenty and can't seem to crack this one.
Oh, some other maybe useful specs:
running CENTOS 6.2
I double checked all permissions. I even tried changing everything to 777 recursively just to make sure Im not loosing it somehow. Made sure all the files are owned by the correct user. chowned recursively. I also tried the standard solution to this problem which is described here: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/132671/git-commit-fails-with-sourcetree-error-unable-to-create-temporary-sha1-filename-git-objects-d8-file-exists
That didnt work either. Not sure where to go from here.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
I feel like Linus is playing cruel tricks on me right now.
You have a bare git repository in /home/website/website.git which is inside of a git repository in /home/website? And then you try to trick the bare git repository into having a working tree using GIT_WORK_TREE?
Maybe it is worth understanding this setup but only if you intend to be a git developer. As you are a user focused on delivering website functionality, I suggest using a standard git setup.
Move the bare git repository elsewhere:
$ mkdir /home/repo
$ mv /home/website/website.git /home/repo/website.git
$ cd /home/website
$ git remote set-url origin /home/repo/website.git
I got the solution. This is it. I was running the above command from the git repo.
Turns out the command should be run from the work tree and altered to look like this:
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/website/ git --git-dir="./website.git/" add ./
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 had a Gitorious install that got old and it is clear now that it is not coming back. I want to recover the repos (mainly the wiki repos) from the repository. I do not want to repeat the long and painful process of setting up Gitorious again, just to get some wiki back out of it...in fact I'd like to clean up the old install soon (remove it). Although, when it was running it was awesome!
I still have the database for gitorious, so I know which .git files I want and where to find them.
I was attempting to setup git-daemon (I'm on a Linux (ubuntu) setup), but I am not having much luck. I was hopeful that maybe I could just copy the 'foo.git' file somewhere and clone it.
Currently my .git files are in user git's home folder. No problem moving them though, but I'm not sure how to go about this.
I have git daemon running, but it 'hangs up unexpectedly' if I try to connect via 'localhost', all the repos also have my 'export-ok' file in them too. I can connect accross my LAN and clone any other git initialized directory via ssh, could that help me?
Can I just copy the foo.git (more like a f13f9ed412591ce72f7b3cb793605e93ce.git) file to maybe a git initialized repo and work with it there? Is there a git tool that I could use to expand the .git file? <-- I'm sure Git would be the tool right?
The .git is a folder and not a file and git repos are lightweight in that it is just files and folders. You can copy your repo to wherever you want.
Since you said localhost, if you want you can even clone the repos with git clone /path/to/repo.git and work on the cloned repo. You do not need the daemon or anything else to be running.
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.