Creating New Remote Git Repositories ☆

I’ve been working with Git for my source control recently. It seems to work more appropriately for me than Subversion. This is primarily because you don’t have to be connected to the Internet to perform commits to the versioning system, it keeps the whole versioning database in a subdirectory called .git.

I did however, have some problems getting a remote repository setup stored on my Dreamhost account, but luckily I found some instructions on autopragmatic.com. Here I want to record the way to create a new repository

On your local machine

  mkdir repo.git
  cd repo.git
  git init
  touch .gitignore
  git add .
  git commit -m "added .gitignore" 
  # Down to here creates the local git repository and does first commit

  git remote add origin ssh://user@example.com/home/user/git/repo.git
  git config branch.master.remote origin
  git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
  # Configure the Git repository

  git push --all
  # push the changes to the remote Git repository.