Set up a new Git repository with a new Git remote origin

November 13^th, 2012

The situation: You have local folder that you want to turn in to a new Git repository. You then want to hook up that repository to a new remote master repository.

On the remote machine

Create an empty remote repository.


				mkdir /repos/project-directory/
				cd /repos/project-directory/
				git init --bare

On the local machine

Create the local repository and do the initial commit, then hook up the remote master.


				cd /project-directory/
				git init
				git add *
				git commit -m "Initial commit"
				git remote add origin ssh://example.com/repos/project-directory/
				git push -u origin master

When I’m the only person working on a particular repo, I like to add this Git hook to auto-push to the remote origin whenever I do a local commit.


				echo "git push -f" > /project-directory/.git/hooks/post-commit
				chmod +x /project-directory/.git/hooks/post-commit

And you’re done!