* How newbies create remote repositories
@ 2009-03-11 6:59 Bernie Innocenti
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From: Bernie Innocenti @ 2009-03-11 6:59 UTC (permalink / raw
To: git
Here's another usability problem report from my friends who
are learning their way to Git from previous experience with
Subversion and Mercurial.
Three of them confessed they couldn't find a simple recipe
to setup remote repositories, after looking in obvious
places such as the git-push manpage.
Each one could figure it out independently after some time, coming
up with a variety of creative strategies:
Strategy 1:
client$ ssh server
server$ mkdir foo.git
server$ cd foo.git
server$ git init --bare --shared
server$ exit
client$ git push --mirror server:foo.git
Problem: Does not setup the remote for you.
Solution: Would be nice if "git push <URL>" could give this tip
Problem: Requires a full unrestricted shell on the server
Solution: If "git init <dir>" was supported, one could do
ssh server git init --bare --shared foo.git
Strategy 2:
client$ ssh server
server$ mkdir foo.git
server$ cd foo.git
server$ git init --bare --shared
server$ exit
client$ git clone server:foo.git .
client$ git add .
client$ git commit
client$ git push
Problem: only works if you had no local repository yet
Strategy 3:
client$ scp -r .git server:foo.git
client$ cd ..
client$ rm -r foo
client$ git clone server:foo.git
Problem: the user checks out the repository from scratch
to properly add the remote
Solution: "git pull" might suggest to use "git remote".
A simple "git remote create" or "git remote new" along with a
reference to it in the manpage of "git push" might have helped
these users.
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// Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
\X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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