Setting up Git for my website

Just wanted to log the process of setting up the Git version control system for editing the code of my website.

• Local Machine
• Make a directory for your code
• Run git init inside of it
• Add some content and commit it
• Server
• Password stuff
• Make an SSH public encryption key if you haven't already
• ssh -t rsa -C 'someone@somewebsite.com'
• Follow the instructions it spits out
• Give a password if you want
• ssh -p 2222 me@myserver.com 'mkdir -p .ssh'
• You'll have to enter a password here
• cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh -p 2222 me@myserver.com 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'
• Git stuff
• ssh -p 2222 me@myserver.com
• cd public_html && mkdir website.git && cd website.git && git init --bare
• cd hooks && cp post-receive.sample post-receive
• echo 'GIT_WORK_TREE=/dir/where/you/want/to/store/code git checkout -f' >> post-receive
• Local Machine
• git remote add website ssh://ip.add.re.ss:portnumber/~/public_html/website.git
• git push -u website +master:refs/heads/master && git push

Now, if I want to edit the code of my website on my local machine I can do so and have changes pushed to the website whenever I want to. I just have to be careful not to push breaking changes. Time to get intimate with Git branches!