It happens I have a shared host on Site5 and it happens most of kool koders are moving to git.
I’m not a so kool koder, but I think git deserve a try.
I know Github offers a wonderful service for open source projects, and I tried it for a bunch of pet works, but something is better to keep private, so, some month ago, I tried to set up a git repository on my Site5 account without success.
Some day ago, I bumped into a couple of posts and, finally, I reached my goal.
Set up a password-less connection
git communication is based on ssh, but a password request each ‘git push’ or ‘git pull’ can be annoying in day-by-day working, so the first thing is to make our connection trusted by the server.
In this post, we can find detailed instructions for a Linux system:
user@localhost:~$ ssh-keygen -t dsa user@localhost:~$ scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub remoteuser@remotehost: user@localhost:~$ ssh remoteuser@remotehost: [remoteuser@remotehost ~]$ cat id_dsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
For other OS, Google is your friend.
Create a repository on Site5
Some month ago, all Site5‘s servers migrated to the last version of git , but if you can’t find it installed, you can open a ticket: Site5‘s support is always friendly and quick.
Now we can create our repository:
[remoteuser@remotehost ~]$ mkdir -p git/repo.git [remoteuser@remotehost ~]$ cd git/repo.git [remoteuser@remotehost ~]$ git --bare init [remoteuser@remotehost ~]$ exit
and create our local repository:
user@host:~$ mkdir git user@host:~$ cd git user@host:~$ git clone ssh://remoteuser@remotehost/~/git/repo.git user@host:~$ echo 'Here we go' > README user@host:~$ git add . user@host:~$ git commit user@host:~$ git push
Fixing “fatal: no matching remote head”-error
After that, when I tried to push my modifies I got an “fatal: no matching remote head” error… fortunately I wasn’t alone with that problem.
First of all we need create an empty local repository then tell git that the “origin” of the local repository is the remote repository
user@host:~$ cd repo user@host:~$ git init user@host:~$ echo 'Here we go' > README user@host:~$ git add . user@host:~$ git commit -ma '' user@host:~$ git push user@host:~$ git remote add origin ssh://remotehost/~/git/repo.git
Then we have to connect the upstream “origin” with the current local branch:
vi .git/config
and adding the following at the bottom:
[branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master
Finally we have to synchronize remote with local repository:
git push origin master
After that
git push
and
git pull
should work without problem
Conclusion
When discovered all necessary steps, any new repository installation goes smooth; in this post I tried to be complete and gather all the necessary informations.
If you are new to git in this page you will find some useful links.
