few questions from a git newbie

Hi,

I am a git newbie, so forgive my ignorance.

I've set up a working system with gitosis.

http://logonex.eu/git/

Currently I can add a repository by doing the following stuff:

edit gitosis.conf

ssh git@server mkdir REPO.git cd REPO.git git --bare init exit

git clone git@server:REPO.git cd REPO git remote add REPO git@server:REPO.git touch .gitignore git add .gitignore git commit -a git push origin master

Is this flow is the "right way"? How can I add a repository without ssh'ing to the server?

Next question is about SVN.

I was using SVN, and now I am migrating from SVN to git. I could import everything to a new repository. However, I want to reorganize my stuff, and break it to several repositories. Can I move directories to other repositories? Or can I partially import a directory from SVN to another directory in a git repository?

How can I make gitosis to hide certain repositories?

Thank you very much for your answers.

Levente

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Levente Kovacs <leventelist@gmail.com> wrote:

We all started as padawans. :-)

Gitosis has no commits since mid September 2009. I would suggest to move to gitolite with a very easy setups, especially for newbies. I'll actually answer more on the rest of your questions as if you would be using gitolite and not gitosis.

With gitolite, you clone the gitolite-admin on a remote machine, as the user who has the admins ssh keys. Under the hood, you still somehow do ssh, but with gitolite, all it takes is to edit gitolite.conf, push your changes and the bare repo gets automatically created on the server.

If you cloned it, you should not need to add remotes. If you're a newbie, I would suggest to use 'git gui' and 'gitk' until you're fully familiar with the command line.

I'll pass the rest of the email. Never got brainw@shed by SVN...

You meant on your gitweb ? The first thing you need to do is actually to secure your gitweb access. Back again to gitolite, a 'ssh gitolite info' will actually tell you the repos you've access on only. So all the rest of repos are hidden somehow. Keep in mind to remove gitweb if you need hidden stuff.

Good luck.