git push/clone to new server

Question

Im just learning git and there is something I cant work out. After creating and using a git repository locally on my Mac, can I push a copy to another server somewhere else? I am behind a firewall so unfortunately I can't run git clone from the other machine.

Answer 1

You can push a branch to a remote server, say github. You would first have to do the initial project setup, then clone your project and:

git push <remote repo> <your branch>

Answer 2

1. git remote add name url
2. git push name branch

Example:

git remote add origin [email protected]:foo/bar.git
git push origin master

See the docs for git push -- you can set a remote as the default remote for a given branch; if you don't, the name origin is special. Just git push alone will do the same as git push origin thisbranch (for whatever branch you're on).

Answer 3

There are many ways to move repositories around, git bundle is a nice way if you have insufficient network availability. Since a Git repository is really just a directory full of files, you can "clone" a repository by making a copy of the .git directory in whatever way suits you best.

The most efficient way is to use an external repository somewhere (use Github or set up Gitosis), and then git push.

Answer 4

What you may want to do is first, on your local machine, make a bare clone of the repository

git clone --bare /path/to/repo /path/to/bare/repo.git  # don't forget the .git!

Now, archive up the new repo.git directory using tar/gzip or whatever your favorite archiving tool is and then copy the archive to the server.

Unarchive the repo on your server. You'll then need to set up a remote on your local repository:

git remote add repo-name user@host:/path/to/repo.git #this assumes you're using SSH

You will then be able to push to and pull from the remote repo with:

git push repo-name branch-name
git pull repo-name branch-name