From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:18:46 GMT
Subject: Re: how-to "backup" a repository
Message-ID: <20061106061846.GB23126@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <454ED27F.8060106@saville.com>

Wink Saville <wink@saville.com> wrote:
> This sounds easy enough, but how-to "create a remote"?
> I looked in .git/remotes and see origin which contains:
> 
> URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin
> 
> But where is the syntax defined?

See http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html#URLS
 
> Also, how do I setup git on my server so that it becomes a server?

So long as you can ssh to it and Git is installed in your PATH then
there's nothing else to do; Git will login via SSH and execute Git
on the remote side to run the server.

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