How do I install git on Ubuntu and manage my files?

Question

I have Ubuntu on my PC.

I want to make all code inside /var/www/ git-versioned.

Where is the best to put my git files and how do I setup git for files inside /var/www/?

Edit:

Better explanation for my question:

1. I need to setup git server on my computer that will be only accessible to all PC on local network and for the rest. (the location for my opinion of git server should be /srv/git/)

2. The files on my computer that i want them to be with git support under /var/www/

Thanks

Answer 1

Installing the git client

Git comes in the Ubuntu packages.

sudo apt-get -y install git

After that, you can easily just create an empty Git repository wherever your code is.

cd /var/www/some-project
git init
git add some-file
git commit -m "First commit."

Although it can be argued that keeping version controlled files in /var/www is not a good idea. You should probably only deploy projects there.

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Managing git repositories

If you want a Git server and push your stuff somewhere, you should look at Gitosis. On Ubuntu, that is:

sudo apt-get -y install gitosis

The Ubuntu community manual also has an extensive tutorial on setting up Gitosis, as well as the Arch wiki I linked to above. The default setup will take care of where to put your files, in this case /srv/gitosis.

If you want more control, grab Gitosis from GitHub instead and change the --home option for the home directory.

sudo adduser \
    --system \
    --shell /bin/sh \
    --gecos 'git version control' \
    --group \
    --disabled-password \
    --home /srv/git \
    git

Then follow the steps in the manual (beware, the Ubuntu version has the user gitosis, whereas the one from GitHub uses git).

You'll find yet another tutorial here, so this stuff is fairly well documented.

Answer 2

An extremely short startup would be to do something like this.

sudo apt-get install git
cd /var/www
git init
git add .
git commit

You would then have a repository of all the files under /var/www.

You probably should take the time to read the docs though.

• http://git-scm.com/documentation
• http://book.git-scm.com/
• http://progit.org/book/
• Getting started with GIT {search}