How to connect to a remote Git repository

Question

I am working with a team and we want to use Git  Not with GitHub  we have a private remote machine   We were using SVN until now  We have a remote machine that works like an SVN repository  Now  we want to turn this machine into the Git central repository  By what I have read  what everyone needs to do on their machines  is to install Git and use the following command to add the remote main repository  git remote add origin  lt remote repo url gt   But what is the remote repo url  How can I figure it out  Our remote machine has IP s like 189 14 666 666  in the remote machine I ve installed Git and created a repository under C  MY GIT REPOSITORY  What should I put in the URL on the local machines

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To me it sounds like the simplest way to expose your git repository on the server (which seems to be a Windows machine) would be to share it as a network resource.

Right click the folder "MY_GIT_REPOSITORY" and select "Sharing". This will give you the ability to share your git repository as a network resource on your local network. Make sure you give the correct users the ability to write to that share (will be needed when you and your co-workers push to the repository).

The URL for the remote that you want to configure would probably end up looking something like file://\\\\189.14.666.666\MY_GIT_REPOSITORY

If you wish to use any other protocol (e.g. HTTP, SSH) you'll have to install additional server software that includes servers for these protocols. In lieu of these the file sharing method is probably the easiest in your case right now.

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Now  if the repository is already existing on a remote machine  and you do not have anything locally  you do git clone  instead   The URL format is simple  it is PROTOCOL   user  remoteMachineAddress path to repository git  For example  cloning a repository on a machine to which you have SSH access using the  dev  user  residing in  srv repositories awesomeproject git and that machine has the ip 10 11 12 13 you do   git clone ssh   dev 10 11 12 13 srv repositories awesomeproject git

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It s simple and follow the small Steps to proceed    Install git on the remote server say some ec2 instance Now create a project folder   mkdir project git  cd project and execute  git init --bare   Let s say this project git folder is present at your ip with address inside home folder workspace project git  forex- ec2 -  home ubuntu workspace project git  Now in your local machine   cd into the project folder which you want to push to git execute the below commands    git init   git remote add origin username 189 14 666 666  home ubuntu workspace project git git add   git commit -m  Initial commit    Below is an optional command but found it has been suggested as i was working to setup the same thing     git config --global remote origin receivepack  git receive-pack      git pull origin master git push origin master   This should work fine and will push the local code to the remote git repository   To check the remote fetch url  cd project folder  git and cat config  this will give the remote url being used for pull and push operations   You can also use an alternative way  after creating the project git folder on git  clone the project and copy the entire content into that folder  Commit the changes and it should be the same way  While cloning make sure you have access or the key being is the secret key for the remote server being used for deployment

User · Answer

Like you said remote repo url is indeed the IP of the server  and yes it needs to be added on each PC  but it s easier to understand if you create the server first then ask each to clone it   There s several ways to connect to the server  you can use ssh  http  or even a network drive  each has it s pros and cons  You can refer to the documentation about protocols and how to connect to the server  You can check the rest of chapter 4 for more detailed information  as it s talking about how to set up your own server

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