How to set up Git server on Linux

Step 1: Set up the server

First, if you haven’t done so already, add your public key to the server:

ssh user@server.com mkdir .ssh

scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@server.com:.ssh/authorized_keys

and then SSH into our server and install Git:

ssh server.com

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install git-core

or you can install git using tar.bz2 or tar.qz file available in http://git-scm.com/ 

Step 2: Adding a user

So, add a Git user:

sudo adduser git (here "git" is user name of your user account in the Linux machine)

Now you’ll need to add your public key to the Git user’s authorized_keys:

sudo mkdir /home/git/.ssh

sudo cp ~/.ssh/authorized_keys /home/git/.ssh/

sudo chown -R git:git /home/git/.ssh

sudo chmod 700 !$

sudo chmod 600 /home/git/.ssh/*

If this commands not working for you try it to do manually (carefully)

Now you’ll be able to authenticate as the Git user via SSH. Test it out:

ssh git@server.com

Step 3: Add your repositories

If using the Git user, log in as them:

login git

Now we can create our repositories:

mkdir myrepo.git

cd !$

git --bare init    (this creates an empty Git repository)

Step 4: Configure your development machine

First, add the remotes to your local machine.

git remote add origin git@server.com/myrepo.git

git push origin master

If you’ve already defined a remote named origin

git remote rm origin