如何在我的服务器上设置 git，并从自身推送？

Question

My boss asked me to install git and create a repo on the company server, to keep it all in house and not in third party companies. But damn, this request is too much to me...

The problem is: I have limited access to the server, already have a project running and need to push from another folder in it. It means that I only have access to public_html (but the path to this folder is known), which have other 2 folders. One is the current LIVE version, and the other is the development version.

I can create more folders and edit everything inside them, but cannot cd to an upper directory or any other folder, besides those two, that it wasn't me who created).

Since we have a web editor, we edit everything in the server and any save we do, already goes to it. Thus, we don't use local files or anything like that.

I have only used GitHub to store commits and versions so I'm a bit lost when it comes to git itself. All the tutorials and explanations I have read says to use /tmp or /var folders and/or create and remove users, which isn't in my reach.

What I need to do is: knowing all of this restrictions, how do I setup the environment to commit and push from folder A of the server to folder B (supposing that B is the master and A a clone)?

Answer 1

I have done this many times for testing purposes.

Go to folder B and make a: git init --bare

This will create multiple files for git purpose. This is now your main repository.

Go to folder A and make a:

git init

git remote add origin PATH/TO/FOLDER/B

and thats all.

Now you can do: git add . , git commit -m 'messsage' , git push/pull origin master from folder A.

Your folder B will receive all pushes. You can test it making a git log in folder B