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Git over ssh without Git being installed on server

Answer 1

+6 A:

I think that git needs to be there. But you can simply install it in the directory you have access to.

Roman Plášil 2009-10-02 12:34:00

How can I install git into user directory? apt-get (for Ubuntu) doesn't seem to have such an option.

Mouk 2009-10-02 13:28:29

You can install it manually. Download the source distribution from http://git-scm.com/download, unpack and then follow the instructions in INSTALL. You will probably need a compiler and so on.

Roman Plášil 2009-10-02 14:25:05

To go along with what Roman said, on a Debian based system you should install build-essentials to get gcc and make and so forth.

docgnome 2009-10-03 01:10:07

The problem is, I can install nothing. And Git seems to have a lot of dependencies. I guess, I will give up compiling Git and try ... something else. Thanks anyway.

Mouk 2009-10-04 16:56:00

If you want to play, you could get a binary distribution for your linux and unpack it by hand (but you would still need the runtime dependencies).

Roman Plášil 2009-10-04 18:07:50

To be more exact you need only `git-upload-pack` / `git-receive-pack` from the whole git installed somewhere; you can then pass appropriate option to "git clone" or "git push" respectively, to point where this command is on remote server.

Jakub Narębski 2009-10-04 20:58:41

@Mouk: the dependencies are: zlib, ssh (for SSH access), and of course build dependencies. The rest of dependencies you can configure out.

Jakub Narębski 2009-10-04 21:05:41

Answer 2

+1 A:

You could use SSHFS and mount the directory on your local machine, and then run Git locally.

Jacob R 2009-10-20 13:46:11

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