Creating a git repository on Manu Lab's Machines

Location of repositories

All the git repositories are located in /labcommon/manulabrepos/ .

Each repository will be contained in its own directory. We will use a repository, "test.git" as an example.

Initializing a bare repository on blastula

• Log in to blastula either using ssh or nomachine
• Create a git respository
  • Create the directory that will contain the repository

cd /labcommon/manulabrepos/
mkdir test.git
chmod 2775 test.git

• • Initialize a "bare" repository. One may not check out branches in a

bare repository. The directory contains all the tracking/metadata files. In

a normal repository all these files are located in the .git directory.

However, it is not possible to push to a normal respository.

cd test.git
git init --bare --shared=group

This repository does not have any tracked files yet. In order to add files

to track, we will first clone this into a normal repository in your home directory on our machines or your ::laptop. Follow the instructions for Cloning a git repository from blastula.