Gitmaker is a simple script that creates a Git repository in a remote SSH server and clones it in the local machine.
This is only possible because:
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Git is awesome. No, seriously, it is. While you can do really complicated forks and merges with it, the way it works over the network is incredibly simple and decentralized.
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You don’t have to install any daemons or special modules to have your remote Git repository (you can if you want to, but it’s not mandatory); the only thing you need is Git itself.
To use Gitmaker you need:
- Git installed on both your local machine and the SSH server.
- Key-based login configured for your SSH user (optional but highly recommended, unless you like to type your password a lot).
Once you have this, go to your favorite folder where you keep your precious programming projects and type:
gitmaker your_user@example.com myrepoThis will create a remote myrepo repository at example.com with a local clone
on the current directory. Yep, it’s ready. Commit and be happy.
Use the coolgit sccript to add some color and aliases to your git setup. It can
also setup your global username, email and ignore file. Just jump in and edit it
to your liking.
Q: But dude, I don’t have Git on my server!
A: Well, that sucks. Anyway, it shouldn’t be too complicated to fix this.
If you have root access, just apt-get install it (or yum it, or emerge it —
whatever you like). If you don’t, I believe it shouldn’t be too complicated
to compile it from source with PREFIX=/home/your_user.
Q: But I run Windows!
A: This should work fine on WSL (a.k.a. Ubuntu on Windows) or any other *nix-on- Windows tools such as Cygwin. Yes, you will need to use a terminal, but if you're here you probably know that already!
Hey, it's on GitHub. Anyone can see, anyone can fork, anyone can modify. Just to formalize this stuff, Gitmaker is under the Artistic License 2.0 - not only to piss off Richard Stallman fans, but also because the GPL v3 is ridiculously restrictive and paranoid. So no soup for you, Stallman. It's probably a good thing too, since we know soup and beards don't mix very well.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0.php
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