[git-users] Remote site setup

2016-06-02 Thread Craig Boldy
Hello everyone. I'm wanting to start using git on my new projects but I'm a total noob. So I have installed git on my Linux server my question is how do I create the repository of an existing site? I CD to the root of the domain name but I don't quiet under stand the next steps. I'm going to

Re: [git-users] Remote site setup

2016-06-02 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 05:39:55 -0700 (PDT) Craig Boldy wrote: > Hello everyone. I'm wanting to start using git on my new projects but > I'm a total noob. > So I have installed git on my Linux server my question is how do I > create the repository of an existing site? What does the "site" mean? A

Re: [git-users] Remote site setup

2016-06-02 Thread Craig Boldy
Sorry here's what I'm trying to achieve. I have a website on a remote Linux server that is located at /var/www/domainname.com/files here I have a program on my mac called Tower. I want to clone the above website to my mac. The Tower program I'm using on my mac is asking for a URL like this e

Re: [git-users] Remote site setup

2016-06-02 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 06:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Craig Boldy wrote: > Sorry here's what I'm trying to achieve. > > I have a website on a remote Linux server that is located at > /var/www/domainname.com/files here > I have a program on my mac called Tower. I want to clone the above > website to my mac.

Re: [git-users] Remote site setup

2016-06-02 Thread Craig Boldy
Yes I have ssh access and git is also installed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more option

Re: [git-users] Remote site setup

2016-06-02 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 06:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Craig Boldy wrote: > Yes I have ssh access and git is also installed. Well, OK, so there are two parts to this: a simple one and a complex one. The simple one is that serving Git repos on an SSH-enabled machine is a no-brainer. Basically you do: $ ssh