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Reputation: 437

Cloning a git repository from my machine to another through ssh

I might be overcomplicating this a lot, but I have a git repo on my machine, and I've got another machine at work I usually connect to for work. Every once in a while I need to get some code that I mainly develop in my machine to this work machine, and I would like to just use git instead of copying the code with scp or rsync so that I can keep track of versions and so on.

So to clone the repo, I thought I would have to reverse ssh into the work machine, and then again clone the git repo through the reversed ssh connection.

A test could be

mkdir testgit && cd testgit
touch file
git init
git add file
git commit -m "test commit"

This in the local machine. Now what I was trying (but doesn't work) is

localmachine  $ ssh -R 43022:localhost:22 user@remote
remotemachine $ git clone ssh://user@localhost:43022/home/user/testgit/

This however always gives me Connection reset by peer, so I don't think I really understand what this reversed connection is doing. What would be the proper way to do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 980

Answers (1)

phd
phd

Reputation: 95028

You don't need to clone to remote, especially in such a overcomplicated way, you just need to push.

On the remote side there have to be 2 repositories — bare and non-bare. Bare repo is where you push to from the local repo. Non-bare repo is a repo with working tree (checked out files) where you pull from bare.

Create a new empty bare and non-bare repositories; push to bare from the local one:

ssh user@remote -p 43022 "
    cd /home/user &&
    git init --bare testgit.git &&
    git init testgit &&
    cd testgit &&
    git remote add bare ../testgit.git"
git remote add work ssh://user@remote:43022/home/user/testgit.git
git push -u work master # or how do call your master branch

Pull from bare to non-bare:

ssh user@remote -p 43022 "cd /home/user/testgit && git pull bare master"

You can automate the last step using a post-receive or post-update hook in the bare repo.

Upvotes: 3

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