This post summaries the procedure for setting up a git server for small team development using private code repository. The trigger is that github does NOT provide free private repository (except student/teacher account) and we are not ready to open the code to the public. Then the most convenient way for us is using ssh to set up a git server. Once the server is ready, either IDEs, like NetBeans/Eclipse or stupid git bash shell could be used for code checking in/out.

How to set up a Git Server on a Linux machine

NOTE: our intention is to set up a private code repository
with only a few team members having the access!

Reference
http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-on-the-Server

0. How to install git on Linux
yum install git-core (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS)

1. Protocol Analysis – (We will choose SSH)
local: for NFS filesystem based code repository
ssh: system level network protocol – read/write
git: git specific protocol – fast but no authentication
http/https: web protocol – slow but popular

2. Make a new bare repository (either LOCALLY or on the git server directly)
git clone –bare my_project my_project.git
[daveti@aimlab ~]$ git clone –bare gitserver gitserver.git
Cloning into bare repository gitserver.git…
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
[daveti@aimlab ~]$ ll
total 148
drwx——  7 daveti daveti  4096 Sep 11 22:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root   root    4096 Aug 27 12:15 ..
-rw——-  1 daveti daveti  3190 Sep 11 17:23 .bash_history
-rw-r–r–  1 daveti daveti    33 Aug 27 12:15 .bash_logout
-rw-r–r–  1 daveti daveti   232 Aug 28 21:26 .bash_profile
-rw-r–r–  1 daveti daveti   124 Aug 27 12:15 .bashrc
drwxrwxr-x  2 daveti daveti  4096 Sep 11 22:48 blog
-rw-rw-r–  1 daveti daveti 29519 Aug 27 12:30 dmesg.out
-rw-r–r–  1 daveti daveti   515 Aug 27 12:15 .emacs
drwxrwxr-x  7 daveti daveti  4096 Sep 11 22:55 gitserver.git
drwxr-xr-x  3 daveti daveti  4096 Aug 27 12:15 .kde
drwxrwxr-x  3 daveti daveti  4096 Aug 28 20:53 ml
drwxr-xr-x  4 daveti daveti  4096 Aug 27 12:15 .mozilla
-rw——-  1 daveti daveti  8641 Sep 11 21:40 .viminfo
[daveti@aimlab ~]$

3. Transport the bare repository into REMOTE git server if it is generated LOCALLY
scp -r my_project.git user@git.server.example.com:/opt/git

4. Make sure ‘user’ could clone the code locally
git clone user@git.server.example.com:/opt/git/my_project.git

5. Make sure ‘user’ could push the code back to repository
touch/vi README.txt
git init
git add README.txt
git commit -m “first commit”
git push origin master

6. Other useful commands for git
git status
git log
git remote -v

7. Configure IDE for git connection
Eclipse:
http://help.eclipse.org/juno/index.jsp?topic=//org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-127.htm
NetBeans:
http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/git.html