Using Git to Clone from a Windows Machine to a Linux Webserver (In House)

Using GIT to clone from a windows machine to a linux webserver (in house)

Here is a walkthrough someone else did. It goes step by step showing how to do what you want.

Git: move existing repository from PC to server, clone from server

On the Linux server, in a new directory do:

git init --shared --bare

Then on your local machine:

git remote add origin server:path/to/repo
git push --all origin

After that, the server will have a full copy of the repository, and you will be able to push and pull to and from it. There's no need to check out another clone from the server when you've already got one locally.

What's the 'standard' directory location to use when cloning a Git repo onto a LINUX machine

What is the professionally expected location

If as you say you're deploying an app that's compiled from source, then there's no such location. In a professional environment your sources don't go on the servers.

From most professional to "it works" solutions:

1. Build system packages outside of your production environment. That means you have a repository of both previously deployed versions and have a package manifest including both build and runtime dependencies. That means you can rebuild your app the same way every time. For installation, install the built package. (this applies to deb, rpm, etc.)

2. Build tarballs with binaries in a predictable environment (developer's box). That means you run (for example, if you're using autotools) ./configure --prefix=/opt/your_app && make install DESTDIR=/tmp/somedirectory - now you can pack the /tmp/somedirectory/opt/your_app contents, copy it to a server and unpack it to /opt/your_app.

3. Clone it wherever (your home directory), then build, then install in the destination. Popular destinations are /opt/app_name and /usr/local.

The solution depends on how professional the deployment really is, how many servers you've got, have you got test/production environment, etc.

How do I clone a Git repository into a specific folder?

Option A:

git clone git@github.com:whatever folder-name

Ergo, for right here use:

git clone git@github.com:whatever .

Option B:

Move the .git folder, too. Note that the .git folder is hidden in most graphical file explorers, so be sure to show hidden files.

mv /where/it/is/right/now/* /where/I/want/it/
mv /where/it/is/right/now/.* /where/I/want/it/

The first line grabs all normal files, the second line grabs dot-files. It is also possibe to do it in one line by enabling dotglob (i.e. shopt -s dotglob) but that is probably a bad solution if you are asking the question this answer answers.

Better yet:

Keep your working copy somewhere else, and create a symbolic link. Like this:

ln -s /where/it/is/right/now /the/path/I/want/to/use

For your case this would be something like:

ln -sfn /opt/projectA/prod/public /httpdocs/public

Which easily could be changed to test if you wanted it, i.e.:

ln -sfn /opt/projectA/test/public /httpdocs/public

without moving files around. Added -fn in case someone is copying these lines (-f is force, -n avoid some often unwanted interactions with already and non-existing links).

If you just want it to work, use Option A, if someone else is going to look at what you have done, use Option C.

git clone on windows

If you have followed the tutorial Setting up a Msysgit Server with copSSH on Windows, I confirm your "Program Files (x86)" can work.

See for instance SO answer "Git clone using ssh - can't find repository":

git clone "ssh://steve@test:4837/Program Files (x86)/ICW/home/steve/vc/git/depo/test.git" 
          /c/dev/es/app/

You will find other path examples in "How to stop git via ssh on windows from resolving the wrong path?".

Using Openssh rather than plink.exe is easier though: see "Setting up a Git server with Windows Server 2008".

As the OP JohnZ mentions in the comments:

Looks like this depends a little bit on the ssh server you use.

I installed CYGWIN, which has openSSH installed.

To clone it, I did this:

git clone "ssh://root@192.168.1.1/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/myrepofolder"

How to get Git to clone into current directory

The solution was using the dot,
so:

rm -rf .* && git clone ssh://user@host.com/home/user/private/repos/project_hub.git .`

rm -rf .* && may be omitted if we are absolutely sure that the directory is empty.

Credits go to:
@James McLaughlin on comments

Hosting Git Repository in Windows

Here are some steps you can follow to get the git daemon running under Windows:

(Prerequisites: A default Cygwin installation and a git client that supports git daemon)

Step 1: Open a bash shell

Step 2: In the directory /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/usr/local/bin/, create a file named "gitd" with the following content:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/git daemon --reuseaddr --base-path=/git --export-all --verbose --enable=receive-pack

Step 3: Run the following cygrunsrv command from an elevated prompt (i.e. as admin) to install the script as a service (Note: assumes Cygwin is installed at C:\cygwin64):

cygrunsrv   --install gitd                          \
            --path c:/cygwin64/bin/bash.exe         \
            --args c:/cygwin64/usr/local/bin/gitd   \
            --desc "Git Daemon"                     \
            --neverexits                            \
            --shutdown

Step 4: Run the following command to start the service:

cygrunsrv --start gitd

You are done. If you want to test it, here is a quick and dirty script that shows that you can push over the git protocol to your local machine:

#!/bin/bash

echo "Creating main git repo ..."
mkdir -p /git/testapp.git
cd /git/testapp.git
git init --bare
touch git-daemon-export-ok
echo "Creating local repo ..."
cd
mkdir testapp
cd testapp
git init
echo "Creating test file ..."
touch testfile
git add -A
git commit -m 'Test message'
echo "Pushing master to main repo ..."
git push git://localhost/testapp.git master

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