GIT-at-Giaever

Short how to

• Get access to an account. If you want one, send me an email at joachim... something ...giaever.org.

• Please note the following:

  • When loggin in to change your password(link below), you must use the username: <username>.git
  • When loggin in everywhere else (through git or this website) you must use: <username>, without .git.
  • The password is the same at everywhere.

• Log in to your account and select "Repo management" to create your first repo. Rememeber that if you choose "Anonymous read access?", anybody will have read access to your repo, and it will be visible to all users through the website's frontpage. Instead you should consider approve another user to access your repo.

• NOTE! Your repo may be renamed to contain your username, or some part of it. E.g Username-repo name.git

• Clone your repo, to your local disk (note the extra /git-directory):

  $ git clone https://<username without .git>@git.giaever.org/git/<repo name>.git/
  

• Browse into the directory you just cloned, and update

  $ cd ./<repo name>
  $ git commit -m 'Initial Commit' --allow-empty
  $ git push && git pull
  

• Set upstream to the branch your working on, which typically is master initially. (But whenevery you make a new branch, this should be executed as well - if you want to push it to remote.)

  git push --set-upstream origin master
  

• If you havent set your username as global, you should set them for this repo. Use --global flag after config to set it globally, for every repo.

  git config user.email "My@email"
  git config user.name "My name"
  

• Then move your source files to the folder (or move the hidden .git folder from this folder, to where your source files is located), and do an initial commit from the directory containing the <.git folder>:

  $ git add .
  $ git commit -am "Added files to project"
  $ git push
  

  (Note the punctation after git add, which adds all the files you have placed in this repo.)

How to get an account

You need to be approved to get an GIT account here, and there is no such thing as a registration form, so dont bother look for it.

But if your looking for a place to change your password your can do it here. But if you've forgotten it. Msg me ;)

Why dont use Github?

Well. First of all it "cost money" (if you need several private repos), and if you have the knowlegde; why pay for it? :) Since I'm (and probably the users of this GIT) mostly can't share our code, its better to have our own solution which we can adapt to our needs.