{"id":3958,"date":"2021-01-30T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T08:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2021-01-30T08:10:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T08:10:04","slug":"how-to-setup-git-server-on-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/ubuntu\/how-to-setup-git-server-on-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Setup Git Server on Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/h2>\n

When working with the Git version control system, you have many choices such as Github, Bitbucket, or Gitlab. If you want to avoid depending on third-party providers, you can run your own Git server.<\/p>\n

Setting up a Git server by yourself allows you to no longer be restricted by public providers\u2019 free plans such as maximum repository size, creating unlimited private repositories, and so on.<\/p>\n

This tutorial will show you the way to set up a Git server on your Ubuntu 20.04 machine.<\/p>\n

Installing Git server<\/h2>\n

Firstly, update your packages list by running:<\/p>\n

$ sudo apt update<\/pre>\n
To install Git, run the following command:<\/p>\n
$ sudo apt install git<\/pre>\n
Verify that Git was successfully installed on your system:<\/p>\n
$ git version<\/pre>\n
Output:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It\u2019s highly recommended that you should create a new Linux user for managing the Git repositories, run:<\/p>\n
$ sudo useradd -m -r -U -d \/home\/git-repos git<\/pre>\n
The home directory of git user is located at \/home\/git-repos. To increase security, we\u2019ll create an ssh key to log in to the git user.<\/p>\n
Switch to the log-in session of git user by running:<\/p>\n
$ sudo su - git<\/pre>\n
To create the SSH directory and file for holding the authorized ssh key for git user, run the following commands:<\/p>\n
$ mkdir -p ~\/.ssh<\/pre>\n
$ chmod 700 ~\/.ssh<\/pre>\n
$ touch ~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys<\/pre>\n
$ chmod 600 ~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys<\/pre>\n
<\/p>\n
Once, the server was successfully set-up, it\u2019s time to create a new git repository:<\/p>\n
$ git init --bare ~\/linuxways.git<\/pre>\n
Output:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Configuring Git repository<\/h2>\n
Now, you have to add your local user\u2019s public SSH key to the authorized_keys file of the git user.<\/p>\n
If you already have generated an SSH key for your local user, you can skip the following step:<\/p>\n
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa<\/pre>\n
Output:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Now, you can retrieve your public SSH key by running:<\/p>\n
$ cat .ssh\/id_rsa.pub<\/pre>\n
Output:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Copy the above public SSH key then paste it into the authorized_keys file of the git user.<\/p>\n
On your local Ubuntu 20.04 machine, assuming that you already had an unversioned directory, for example, ~\/go. Change the current directory to it:<\/p>\n
$ cd ~\/go<\/pre>\n
$ git init .<\/pre>\n
Next, you have to add a git remote to track your local repository on Git server:<\/p>\n
$ git remote add origin git@git-server-ip-address:linuxways.git<\/pre>\n
Verify that your Git server was successfully installed and configured, run the following command:<\/p>\n
$ cd ~\/go<\/pre>\n
$ touch README<\/pre>\n
$ git add .<\/pre>\n
$ git commit -m \"Add file Readme\"<\/pre>\n
$ git push origin master<\/pre>\n
<\/p>\n
Conclusion<\/h2>\n
In this tutorial, we\u2019ve described the detailed steps of installing and configuring a Git server.<\/p>\n
If you encounter any problems, please let me know.<\/p>\n\n\n
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