Git At Home

Setting up your own git server at home is easy enough. Once you have sshd running (or Remote Login enabled), your friends for interacting with the remote repository are:

git clone username@machineIP:path
git remote add remoteRepoNickname username@machineIP:path
git push remoteRepoNickname branchName
git pull remoteRepoNickname branchName

I got started using Pragmatic Version Control Using Git. There's also an online book: Pro Git.

Above and beyond 'there is no server', the main thing I needed to get my head around was that git has the concept of 'staging' commits. For example:

• git add file will stage file's deltas.
• git status will show you your staged changes.
• git commit -m 'comment' will then commit your staged changes.
• git push remoteRepoNickname master then pushes your committed changes to another machine.