How to create a remote Git repository from a local one?
I think you make a bare repository on the remote side, git init --bare, add the remote side as the push/pull tracker for your local repository (git remote add origin URL), and then locally you just say git push origin master. Now any other repository can pull from the remote repository.
In order to initially set up any Git server, you have to export an existing repository into a new bare repository — a repository that doesn’t contain a working directory. This is generally straightforward to do. In order to clone your repository to create a new bare repository, you run the clone command with the --bare option. By convention, bare repository directories end in .git, like so:
$ git clone --bare my_project my_project.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/projects/my_project.git/
This command takes the Git repository by itself, without a working directory, and creates a directory specifically for it alone.
Now that you have a bare copy of your repository, all you need to do is put it on a server and set up your protocols. Let’s say you’ve set up a server called git.example.com that you have SSH access to, and you want to store all your Git repositories under the /opt/git directory. You can set up your new repository by copying your bare repository over:
$ scp -r my_project.git [email protected]:/opt/git
At this point, other users who have SSH access to the same server which has read-access to the /opt/git directory can clone your repository by running
$ git clone [email protected]:/opt/git/my_project.git
If a user SSHs into a server and has write access to the /opt/git/my_project.git directory, they will also automatically have push access. Git will automatically add group write permissions to a repository properly if you run the git init command with the --shared option.
$ ssh [email protected]
$ cd /opt/git/my_project.git
$ git init --bare --shared
It is very easy to take a Git repository, create a bare version, and place it on a server to which you and your collaborators have SSH access. Now you’re ready to collaborate on the same project.