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Justin
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🔧 Using git with a local ssh server

Let's say you're ripping on a project and maybe have two computers at home or you don't feel like sharing the project you're working on to github/gitlab just yet.

You can use git + ssh to keep those two projects in sync and its super easy.

This is also a good way to work projects across computers without having to rsync or scp files.

Assuming you have a git project and a ssh connection already, you are pretty much all set. Just follow these instructions:

# on the remote server copy down what git you do have _or_
# create a new folder/git to sync it to
ssh user@host "git init --bare /mnt/foo/bar/my-project.git"

# then add that remote server
git remote add origin ssh://user@host/mnt/foo/bar/my-project.git

# and finally, push to it!
git push origin master
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Keep in mind, if you already have an origin, you can rename that to something like "local-server", then you have a "git push local-server" for local testing or "git push origin" for when its time to really deploy.

Happy coding!

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