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+[[!meta title="Git"]]
+
+Git research and development.
+
+Barebones shared git repositories
+---------------------------------
+
+No gitolite, gitosis, gitlab or whatever involded. Only OpenSSH and git is needed.
+
+### Basic config
+
+If needed, create a host instance for your git server at your `~/.ssh/config`:
+
+ Host git.project.org gitserver
+ HostName git.project.org
+
+Now make sure you can log into the server using key-based auth.
+
+### Server config
+
+ sudo apt install git
+ sudo adduser git --home /var/git
+ sudo mkdir /var/git/repositories
+ sudo chown git. /var/git/repositories
+ sudo chmod 775 /var/git/repositories
+ sudo usermod -a -G git `whoami` # add yourself into the git group
+
+### Creating a repository
+
+At your computer:
+
+ repo="name-your-project-here"
+ mkdir $repo
+ cd $repo
+ git init
+ git remote add origin ssh://gitserver/var/git/repositories/$repo.git
+
+Then do your regular stuff: create files, commit stuff, etc:
+
+ touch test
+ git add .
+ git commit -m "Initial import"
+
+### Copy a bare git repo to the server
+
+ cd ..
+ git clone --bare $repo $repo.git
+ scp -r $repo.git gitserver:/var/git/repositories/$repo.git
+
+### Making the repository shareable
+
+In the server:
+
+ sudo chgrp -R git /var/git/repositories/$repo.git
+ sudo chmod 775 /var/git/repositories/$repo.git
+
+ find /var/git/repositories/$repo.git/ -type f -exec sudo chmod 664 {} \;
+ find /var/git/repositories/$repo.git/ -type d -exec sudo chmod 775 {} \;
+
+Now make sure that the repository configuration has the following option at the `core` section:
+
+ sharedRepository = group
+
+You can edit `/var/git/repositories/$repo.git/config` to add this config or just run
+the following commands:
+
+ git -C /var/git/repositories/$repo.git config core.sharedRepository group
+
+### Daily workflow
+
+From now on, you can work at your computer's local `$repo` as usual:
+
+ cd $repo
+ git pull
+ touch another-test
+ git add .
+ git commit -m "Adds another-test"
+ git push # this sends changes back to your git server
+
+### Adding more users into the game
+
+You can add existing users to edit the repository given that:
+
+* They have accounts in the system.
+* They are added into the `git` group.
+
+If they also use key-based auth they can seamlessly contribute to your repository
+as if you were using a more complex repository manager like gitolite or a service
+like gitlab.
+
+You can even try to implement some more complex access control by using different
+groups for each project so you're not bound to the `git` group.
+
+### References
+
+- [How to make bare git repository group-writable after pushing?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15881104/how-to-make-bare-git-repository-group-writable-after-pushing).
+- [Create Git bare / shared remote repository](http://pietervogelaar.nl/create-git-bare-shared-remote-repository/).
+- [How to clone and share a Git repository over SSH](http://linuxaria.com/pills/how-to-clone-and-share-a-git-repository-over-ssh?lang=en)
+- [Git - Getting Git on a Server](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Getting-Git-on-a-Server).
+- [Git - Setting Up the Server](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server).
+
+Further development
+-------------------
+
+* See [utils-git](https://git.fluxo.info/utils-git/about/) repository for useful scripts and plugins.
+* [gitly self-hosted](https://gitly.io).
+* [Git Large File Storage - Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.](https://git-lfs.github.com/) / [#792075 - ITP: git-lfs -- Git Large File Support. An open source Git extension for versioning large files - Debian Bug report logs](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792075).
+* signed commits:
+ * check using gpgv?
+ * [Validating other keys on your public keyring](https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x334.html)
+ * https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/using_signed_git_commits/
+ * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17371955/verifying-signed-git-commits
+ * https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work
+ * https://mikegerwitz.com/papers/git-horror-story.html
+* Push-to-deploy plugin:
+ * http://superuser.com/questions/230694/how-can-i-push-a-git-repository-to-a-folder-over-ssh
+ * https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git
+ * https://github.com/blog/1957-git-2-3-has-been-released (push-to-deploy)
+ * https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.3.0/Documentation/config.txt#L2155
+ * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1764380/push-to-a-non-bare-git-repository
+ * http://bitflop.com/tutorials/git-bare-vs-non-bare-repositories.html