Accessing git repo remotely (server setup)

Question

I have a git repository in my ubuntu server, which I like to access from my macbook. I enabled ssh to ubuntu from my mac. Can somebody give how can I setup git so that I can work fron both system. My requirement is simple, I just need to work from both system on the same repo (there will only be one user accessing the repo).

I saw some good tutorials like http://rudygems.com/post/65970932/setting-up-a-simple-git-server

I am not much sure about bare repository. I have a existing repo, and I like to work from both server and from mack book. Is this stright forward by just doing step 4 in the above tutorial. I don't want to do mistake as this is a working repo.

Thanks

bsr

Answer 1

I do this lots, without setting up a git server. All I do is

git clone git+ssh://[email protected]/home/tom/path/to/repository path/to/clone 

Setting up a whole server just to push and pull files about, seems like overkill, to me.

Just make sure that you remember to push back regularly, and you should be able to work fine from both locations

git pull origin <branchname> git push origin <branchname> 

to push and pull to and from the repo. Also, have a read of man git-push and man git-pull