Re: Newbie using git -- need a little help
Thanks for the quick reply. I have a few questions regarding the infrastructure you described...
> When you push to your server, the repository is updated (that is the
> thing that is in .git) but your working tree isn't.
> So when you push to a repository that also has a working tree attached
> to it, you have to do a "git checkout" on the working tree. Or pull from
> the repository and not push to it.
Ahhh, that makes sense... :)
> Than I publish my project to the server without giving the repository at
> the server a working directory attached to it. A working directory is
> where you can edit files and commit changes locally, just in case I
> didn't introduce the term yet.
> # This creates the repository _without_ the working tree on the server.
> ssh 131.188.30.102 git --git-dir=/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/astro.git init-db
The /home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/astro.git is simply a .git directory located on the "server", and it doesn't actually contain any working code (yet), right?
> # This adds the remote origin to the config so that I don't have to
> # type in the long repository path each time I am going to push or pull
> # something.
> git remote add origin 131.188.30.102:/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/astro.git
So what this command is doing is telling git where the "origin" is -- on the remote server, correct? Also, is the default protocol (since all you typed was 131.188.30.102:/.../astro.git) is SSH correct?
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> # Now I publish my stuff to the central repository. You need at least
> # one commit in order to be able to do that.
> git push origin master:master
>
> # I add a few lines to my config so that when I type in "git pull" it
> #fetches the stuff and merges it with my local repositories master branch.
>
> "vim .git/config" and add the following lines:
>
> [branch "master"]
> remote = origin
> merge = refs/heads/master
> EOF
I'm a little lost on what 'origin' refers to precisely. Is origin considered the "root" of all the changes (the workspace as it was originally before any patches)? Or is it a location for the working files? You give a definition below in your e-mail but I'm still not completely sure what it is referring to.
> # Now I can fetch back to see if everything works
> git pull
Makes sense...let me give this a try. :)
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> Now I am fine the infrastructure is all set up. The next time I am going
> to access the project from a different machine I simply do:
>
> git pull 131.188.30.102:/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/astro.git
>
> And that's it. The origin and where it is going to merge stuff is set
> automatically up by git. Note: I use ssh (attached to a ssh-agent so that I
> don't have to passwords all the time I am doing a push or pull). I hope that
> helps you and didn't miss your original question. I just fly over your e-Mail
> and picked a few keywords to comment on.
Awesome...thanks, Thomas. I'll tinker around with this a little more and see if I can get this working as wanted.
Thanks again.
- robert -
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