Set up a git repository¶
There are a couple ways to setup a git repository depending on what type of work you are trying to do.
Single repository which is used by you and no one else
Group repository which is used by you and someone else in your group
Public repository which is readable (and clonable) by anyone
Single¶
To setup a single repository, you can simply change to the directory which you want to be under git control and do the following:
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial import"
This will give you a git repository which you can then clone remotely using ssh.
Group¶
To setup a group repository, you will need to use a directory which is
readable/writable by all the members of your group. This can usually
be found in your center or program shared storage. You will need to
initialize a bare shared group repository. The following example is
assuming your shared storage is at /org/centers/foo and your project
name is bar:
GIT_DIR=bar.git git init --bare --shared=group
Initialized empty shared Git repository in /org/centers/foo/repos/private/bar.git/
You can now clone your new repository by doing the following:
git clone /org/centers/foo/repos/private/bar
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/bar/.git/
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
You can now begin adding things to the bar directory and committing
them. When you are ready to push your changes to the central repository,
you can do:
git push --all
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 235 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
To /org/centers/foo/repos/private/bar
* [new branch] master -> master
As you can see, the --all created the remote master branch for
you. In the future, all you will need to do is git push.
Note
You can determine your group membership by using the id
command on any Oden Institute machine. Your gid is your primary group
and the other groups listed are supplementary groups to which
you have been added based on your affiliation.