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gitosis: how to add new repository

20th February 2009

I assume that you already have your gitosis-admin repository working (this is described elsewhere).

1. cd gitosis-admin && git pull – enter your gitosis administrative repository and ensure it is up-to-date
2. $EDITOR gitosis.conf
3. add [group newreponame] section (newreponame is the name of your new repository being added); add yourself with members = yourlogin@yourhost line; also add writable = newreponame line:
   

   [group newreponame]
   members = yourlogin@yourhost
   writable = newreponame

4. based on my assumption of a correctly setup gitosis-admin repository, you should already have the appropriate public key in the keydir directory, but if not – copy your user’s ssh public key to keydir in the form of yourlogin@yourhostname.pub, then do git add keydir/yourlogin@yourhostname.pub
5. git commit -am ‘new repository: newreponame’; git push;
6. now that you have the new repo permissions configured, let’s actually create it. Navigate to the directory holding the files of your project (e.g. cd ~/newreponame), and do git init; git add . – this initializes empty git repository, and then adds all the files to it. If you have no files – you can skip the ‘git add .’ command, as it will do nothing for you.
7. git commit -m ‘initial commit’. If you had no files added to the commit, git will complain that it cannot create an empty commit. In this case use the command git commit ––allow-empty -m ‘initial commit’
8. git remote add origin ssh://gitosis@yourGitosisServerName/newreponame.git
9. git push ––all
10. final thing: git config ––add branch.master.remote origin && git config ––add branch.master.merge refs/heads/master; alternatively, cd .git && $EDITOR config, and then add these lines:
    

    [branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master

    Without these lines, you won’t be able to git pull.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 20th, 2009 at 21:05 and is filed under *nix, how-to, Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

16 Responses to “gitosis: how to add new repository”

1. hauptmech Says:
   April 17th, 2009 at 7:00

   Thanks, this was useful

2. John E Says:
   October 13th, 2009 at 17:35

   Thanks!! I love gitosis but always forget the details. The previous guides I use always seem to leave one step out or another, added to my bookmarks!

3. Bogdan Says:
   October 13th, 2009 at 23:18

   You are welcome!

   I’m using this as a reference myself

4. Synesthesia Says:
   January 14th, 2010 at 0:27

   [...] gitosis: how to add new repository [...]

5. BigBaaadBob Says:
   January 22nd, 2010 at 0:02

   Rather than directly edit the config file, you can (and maybe should) use:
$ git config --add branch.master.remote origin
$ git config --add branch.master.merge refs/heads/master


6. Bogdan Says:
   January 25th, 2010 at 10:13

   Thank you, I’ve updated the text.

7. Marcin Says:
   July 12th, 2010 at 11:10

   Hi, thanks for sharing this information, got stuck following different site and followed your explanation and it all worked. Bookmarked :-).. cheers

8. noqqe.de » Blog Archive » Gitosis | Debugging, Undokumentiertes und Konfiguration Says:
   August 12th, 2010 at 20:48

   [...] Definierbare Rechte und Gruppenorganisation für Git-Repositories. Im Web findet man unzählige How-To’s die eine Standardinstallation wirklich gut und übersichtlich dokumentieren bzw. dazu [...]

9. Slobo Says:
   September 15th, 2011 at 21:11

   In a recent git version I needed to substitute

   7. git commit –allow-empty -m “Initial commit”

   otherwise I get greeted with a message that there is nothing to commit

10. Bogdan Says:
    September 16th, 2011 at 9:46

    I believe you had no files in the directory where you ‘git init; git add .’ (or you haven’t run ‘git add .’, which is less likely).

    I’ll update the post to mention this case, thanks.

11. Slobo Says:
    September 18th, 2011 at 23:39

    I like to create an empty repo and connect it to project tracking software before making actual commits
    Cheers

12. dinh vi gps Says:
    December 31st, 2011 at 21:43

    Thanks for your instructions,
    It works like a charm
    But at when I clone new project, add a file, commit new file, then push back to the server it throw errors
    After edit new project config file, change: bare = false => true, it work normally
    Thanks again!

13. Bogdan Says:
    January 2nd, 2012 at 18:10

    By default gitosis should create bare repositories. If that was not your case – then either something went wrong when setting up gitosis, or you’re not using gitosis at all

14. 將目前的 git 專案放到遠端主機上 « 傑克達與瑞兒絲的大小事 Says:
    April 18th, 2012 at 10:29

    [...] 注意： 這項操作需要先在 git server 的 gitosis 裏正確設定存取權限，不然一定會出現 access denied 而無法正確將本地端資料放到遠端，可參考這篇說明 [...]

15. Damian Says:
    April 30th, 2012 at 22:20

    To concatenate commands and avoid possible mistakes replace ; with &&

    Thanks!

16. Bogdan Says:
    May 1st, 2012 at 16:38

    Right, this is what I’ve used in half of the commands. Should have probably used in all commands, but ‘;’ is one symbol faster to type than ‘&&’ Still a valid point, thanks.

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