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Git in local server

Using git for version control it's in itself a great help, however, the tool becomes more useful when it has to be used to upload code or projects to a local server.

To start, you must verify that your server has git installed, then you must create an empty repository with the next command:

git --bare init <Repo name>
# By convention, empty repos have the .git extension.
# Example:
git --bare init glowing-computing-machine.git
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Once you've created the empty repo, you can access it and view a similar structure.

bare-repo

Now, for your repo to update automatically, you must add a hook... exacly, in the hooks folder, you'll find some by default but the one you'll use is called different: post-receive. Create the file and add the next line:

git --work-tree=<destination path> --git-dir=<origin path> checkout -f

# The origin path will be the path where your empty repo will be placed
# And destination path will be the path where your files will be inserted
# By instance:
git --work-tree=/home/hali/Documentos/Git/_site \
--git-dir=/home/hali/Documentos/Git/glowing-computing-machine.git \
checkout -f
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Finally, add the permissions to execute the created file

chmod +x post-receive
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Only you must review, that your destination directory is completely empty

ls site

Then, execute git clone

ls-glowing

Ready!, we can upload content... but it becomes annoying to have to write our password every time we do pull or push, so with the help of ssh-copy-id command, we can add our public ssh key to list of accepted keys on the server

ssh-copy-id <server IP>
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ssh-copy-id

That's how we can upload code to our repo and it will be automatically copied in the folder that we choose.

commit-inicial
ls-site-commit

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