Adding a New Repository to Git/Gitosis

It’s been a while since I used my own git server. I’m pulling together a bunch of management scripts into a toolbox to take with me from server to server and wanted to make a new repository.

Except I had no idea what to do to make a new one and I don’t seem to have written it down last time since it seemed so obvious at the time.

So, here’s the scoop…

To create new repositories:

• Add the project to the gitosis configuration
• Make them writable for the user you want to push as
• Push up the gitosis-admin configuration
• Create a new home for the project
• Initialize it as a git repository
• Copy all your project files into the new repository directory
• Add them all to the git repository
• Commit everything
• Push to the server

For example: let’s assume your username is ‘jdoe’ and you want to create a repository ‘myproject’.

In your clone of your server’s gitosis-admin, edit ‘gitosis.conf’ and add::

  [group exampleproject]
  members = jdoe
  writable = myproject

Commit that change and push the changed gitosis configuration.

    # git commit -a -m "Added new group 'exampleproject' and project 'myproject'"
    # git push

Then create the local repository:

    # mkdir myproject
    # cd mypyroject
    # git init
    # ...copy all your project files in...
    # git commit -a -m "First commit"

Set it up to push to the remote:

    # git remote add myserver gitosis_user@yourserver.com:myproject.git

Do some work, add, commit everything then push it up:

    # git commit -a -m "Putting away before first push to server"
    # git push myserver master:refs/heads/master

That’s it. You now have a new project up on your git server and every time you do a git push it’ll go up.