Using Git with Servers



Git Servers



• A git server can exist in several forms using: git protocol, HTTP, and SSH access to the remote git repo like Github, Stash from Atlassian, Bitbucket and Gitlab

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Create a Remote Repository



On GitHub:
• Find the "New repository" button
• Provide a name and description of your repo
• Do not initialize the repo with a README (if you do, we can add an extra argument in one of the later commands.)
• Click the "Create repository" button

On local repository:
• cd to local repo directory
• Copy and paste the following commands into CLI

# Push codes from local repo to remote repo
git remote add origin git@github.com:<your_username>/<your_repo>.git
git push -u origin master


• Replace URI with the one copied from Github
• origin is just an alias for the remote server
• master is the name of the branch into which you are pushing to remote repo

# To view the remote repo URI
git remote -v


• Setup SSH connection with remote repo
◇ Create SSH key and public key added to remote repository (see here)

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Stage, Commit, Push, Pull



• The working cycle with remote repo will be as follow:
◇ Work on your code
◇ Stage & Commit your changes: git add <files> && git commit -m <your message>
◇ Push your changes: git push origin master
◇ If others are working on the same project, you will want to pull changes from the server.
◇ Pulling looks like git pull origin master

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