Setup a Git server with msysgit on Windows

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My friends and I are trying to setup Git for Windows using the tutorial Git Server  Gitosis and Cygwin on Windows  but we just keep running into problems    What would a  Setup Git Server  guide for Windows using msysgit be like   There is a comment in the tutorial above suggesting it can t be done with msysgit because gitosis requires the use of an SSH Server and Bash  What is a step by step guide  as there is not one available     Install mysisgit

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I found this post and I have just posted something on my blog that might help.

See Setting up a Msysgit Server with copSSH on Windows. It's long, but I have successfully got this working on Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

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GitStack should meet your goal  I has a wizard setup   It is free for 2 users and has a web based user interface  It is based on msysgit

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After following Tim Davis  guide and Steve s follow-up  here is what I did   Server PC   Install CopSSH  msysgit  When creating the CopSSH user  uncheck Password Authentication and check Public Key Authentication so your public private keys will work  Create public private keys using PuTTygen  put both keys in the user s CopSSH home user  ssh directory  Add the following to the user s CopSSH home user  bashrc file   GITPATH   cygdrive c Program Files  x86  Git bin  GITCOREPATH   cygdrive c Program Files  x86  Git libexec git-core  PATH   GITPATH    GITCOREPATH    PATH   Open Git Bash and create a repository anywhere on your PC     git --bare init repo git Initialized empty Git repository in C  repopath repo git     Client PC   Install msysgit  Use the private key you created on the server to clone your repo from ssh   user server port repopath repo git  for some reason  the root is the C  drive    This allowed me to successfully clone and commit  but I could not push to the bare repo on the server  I kept getting   git    repopath repo git  is not a git command  See  git --help   fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   This led me to Rui s trace and solution which was to create or add the following lines to  gitconfig in your Client PC s  USERPROFILE  path  C  Users UserName     remote  origin       receivepack   git receive-pack   I am not sure why this is needed   if anybody could provide insight  this would be helpful   my git version is 1 7 3 1 msysgit 0

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Bonobo Git Server for Windows  From the Bonobo Git Server web page      Bonobo Git Server for Windows is a web application you can install on   your IIS and easily manage and connect to your git repositories       Bonobo Git Server is a open-source project and you can find the   source on github    Features    Secure and anonymous access to your git repositories User friendly web interface for management User and team based repository access management Repository file browser Commit browser Localization   Brad Kingsley has a nice tutorial for installing and configuring Bonobo Git Server   GitStack  Git Stack is another option  Here is a description from their web site      GitStack is a software that lets you setup your own private Git server   for Windows  This means that you create a leading edge versioning   system without any prior Git knowledge  GitStack also makes it super   easy to secure and keep your server up to date  GitStack is built on   the top of the genuine Git for Windows and is compatible with any   other Git clients  GitStack is completely free for small teams1    1 the basic edition is free for up to 2 users

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There is a nice open source Git stack called Git Blit  It is available for different platform and in different packages  You can also easily deploy it to your existing Tomcat or any other servlet container  Take a look at Setup git server on windows in few clicks tutorial for more details  it will take you around 10 minutes to get basic setup

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I m using GitWebAccess for many projects for half a year now  and it s proven to be the best of what I ve tried  It seems  though  that lately sources are not supported  so - don t take latest binaries sources  Currently they re broken     You can build from this version or download compiled binaries which I use from here

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With regards to the reference to the Tim Davis page - Setting up a Msysgit Server with copSSH on Windows - I used this to get a Git server running on  Windows 7 Home Premium 64     Below is a postmortem update of what I learned in addition to his instructions     Like Tim Davis said  this was an arduous and frustrating process  at least for me - I m not too good with integration of this sort  but I learned alot in the process   I hope my pain benefits someone else in the future  because this was an arduous process     There is a step to copy all the Git executables into your CopSsh bin directory   Instead of copying files and figuring out which files are needed  add the git bin path to your git path   I did so by modifying my  bashrc and CopSsh profile   Here s what I added to  bashrc  in your CopSsh and Windows home directory       gitpath   cygdrive c Program Files  x86  Git bin       gitcorepath  cygdrive c Program Files  x86  Git libexec git-core           PATH   gitpath    gitcorepath    PATH    Here s what I added to the bash profile  in CopSsh etc profile       gitpath   c Program Files  x86  Git bin       gitcorepath  cygdrive c Program Files  x86  Git libexec git-core       export PATH   bin  syspath  gitpath  gitcorepath  winpath    There is some duplication here - it  works for me  so someone chime in which is the correct place to modify the path  The newer msysgit versions might not give you the screen to choose the ssh executable where you choose between the Git ssh and PuTTY ssh   You ll have to set GIT SSH manually if you use PuTTY  I didn t follow one part of the instructions and that was installing Tortoise - I used the command line instead as that s how I prefer to learn a vcs like I did with rcs and Subversion and found that to work for me   I had problems with the clone command using ssh   Here s how I did it   Git clone using ssh - can  39 t find repository  This is where I banged my head the most  The CopSsh install directory was  Program Files  x86  ICW   I got away with this  but if I were doing it again  I d use a directory name with no spaces  These other sources helped me figure things out   Another way to setup a Git server on Windows   http   code google com p tortoisegit wiki HOWTO CentralServerWindowsXP  The client side of things   http   toolmantim com thoughts setting up a new remote git repository  An explanation of Git as a server  not related to Windows  but a more in depth look than installation steps    http   progit org book ch4-0 html  Plus O Reilly s Version Control with Git - the Remote Repositories chapter    In retrospect  if I had known how time consuming this would be  I might have started out with Mercurial as I read the install on Windows is easier  but I ll have an opinion on that after I work with Git awhile and then try Mercurial

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I am not sure why anyone hasn t suggested http   gitblit com  Pure java based solution  allow HTTP protocol and really easy to setup

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I did what Bob Murphy suggested was the  hard  option   I installed Ubuntu under VMWare Server  free  at work and then followed this guide on setting up Gitosis  I found it much easier than trying to get it going under Windows  Once it s set up you really don t have to touch it because Gitosis administration can be done from Windows by pushing updated versions of the gitosis conf file  Any work I do need to do on the server directly is done via PuTTY so I don t have to use the horrible VMWare Server interface   I ve recently been messing around with VirtualBox at home and I ve found it much nicer easier to work with than VMWare Server  so it may be worth looking at that

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There may simply not be such a guide  If so  you may not have much luck convincing anybody to write one  because it would be a lot of work   I would recommend either of two things  The easier one is to follow the guide you have slavishly  which means forgetting about msysgit   The harder one is to put up a Linux server - perhaps as a guest under Windows using VirtualBox  free  or VMWare or Parallels  pay   and then follow one of the many sets of instructions Google will lead you to  But you will probably find those instructions are insufficient - they usually assume you ve already set up an ssh server  for example  so you have to get that info elsewhere  I ve done that twice  and can say that unless you re already something of a Linux guru  it will be a struggle

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You don t need SSH for sharing git  If you re on a LAN or VPN  you can export a git project as a shared folder  and mount it on a remote machine  Then configure the remote repo using  file     URLs instead of  git   URLs  Takes all of 30 seconds  Done

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I just wanted to add my experiences with the PATH setup that Steve and timc mentions above  I got permission problems using shell tools  like mv and cp  having Git s shell executables first in the path    Appending them after the existing PATH instead this solved my problems  Example   GITPATH   cygdrive c Program Files  x86  Git bin  GITCOREPATH   cygdrive c Program Files  x86  Git libexec git-core  PATH   PATH    GITPATH    GITCOREPATH   I guess CopSSH doesn t go along well with all of msysgit s shell executables

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