How to set up your own private Git server on Linux

Update 2: as pointed out by Tim Huegdon, several comments on a Hacker News thread pointing here, and the excellent Pro Git book, Gitolite seems to be a better solution for multi-user hosted Git than Gitosis. I particularly like the branch–level permissions aspect, and what that means for business teams. I’ve left the original article intact.

Update: the ever–vigilant Mike West has pointed out that my instructions for permissions and git checkout were slightly askew. These errors have been rectified.

One of the things I’m attempting to achieve this year is simplifying my life somewhat. Given how much of my life revolves around technology, a large part of this will be consolidating the various services I consume (and often pay for). The mention of payment is important, as up until now I’ve been paying the awesome GitHub for their basic plan.

I don’t have many private repositories with them, and all of them are strictly private code (this blog; Amanda’s blog templates and styles; and some other bits) which don’t require collaborators. For this reason, paying money to GitHub (awesome though they may be) seemed wasteful.

So I decided to move all my private repositories to my own server. This is how I did it.

Set up the server

These instructions were performed on a Debian 5 “Lenny” box, so assume them to be the same on Ubuntu. Substitute the package installation commands as required if you’re on an alternative distribution.

First, if you haven’t done so already, add your public key to the server:

ssh myuser@server.com mkdir .ssh
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub myuser@server.com:.ssh/authorized_keys

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