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Setting Up Your Own Git Server

Erhan Kılıç on August 15, 2018

This post was first published on Setting Up Your Own Git Server Setting up your own git server is very useful. You can set up your own git server...
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Rob Hoelz

If Git would be overkill here, what would you propose as an alternative? I use Git on every project I work on, whether I'm the only one working on it or not, and it's saved my bacon more times than I can count!

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medium-rowdy

Setting up my own git server is something I've been meaning to do for several years, but never got around to it, thinking that it was a lot more complicated than this.

I could not believe how simple and easy it is!

Thank you for posting.

 
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Rob Hoelz

I have! I used to use it primarily a long time ago, but then I switched to using Git for my personal stuff when my job converted their repositories to Git - easier to keep one tool in my head! I still miss Darcs' UI - best VCS UI I've ever used.

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Arcaz21 • Edited

Is there a way when I push my changes to my server and the server will create/update on another directory that I can access?

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Erhan Kılıç

Yes you can do it and it's on article. You can edit post-recived and write bash code.

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Henry Quinn

Yeah. This could be considered part of a CI/CD pipeline. It usually needs some other tools set up on top of Git.

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Luka Dornhecker • Edited

Or you could just install gitolite.

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Gabriel Ben Harosh

Why not just use services like GitHub or Bitbucket?

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Erhan Kılıç

Some people or companies wants to use their own git server. Some of them doesn't trust to GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab etc... I worked at some companies that uses their own git server. They customized everything for their purpose. I don't need to use my own git server but I learned when I work with these companies and I wanted to share my knowledge.

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Erhan Kılıç

Yes but you must generate ssh key for your user. You can read detailed information on git book.