Setting up GIT

I have an ASP.NET MVC hobby project I am doing on my own but still a source control system is useful. After looking around I have choosen GIT. I have used already CVS, SVN, VSS, TFS and perforce but I have read good things about GIT, so I have thought that I might as well try it out. Well, I have never set up a source control system and I am not a linux guru either so I have pretty much spent my whole day with this (but as usual it is 10 minutes if you know how to do it). My setup is the following: I want to have a git remote repositry on a Linux desktop and I am developing on a Windows laptop. So for this scenario to set up, you kind of have to do the following: On the linux machine:

• Install GIT (it is written here how, but if you are so dumb with Linux as I am then I tell you that "su" is the command to become root)

• Create a directory where you want to have your repositry.

  mkdir gitrep

• Add write and execute writes recursively for everyone.

  chmod -R 777 gitrep

• Initialize the git bare repository

  git init --bare

• In your git repository in the .git fodler open up description file and give the repository a description (for me the push has failed without this, I do not know why....)

On the Windows machine do the following:

• Install git there as well (it is written here how)
• Go to the directory where your project is in Windows Explorer and right click and say GIT bash here. From now on everyting goes into git bash. So type in:

  git init

• Add your project

  git add .

• Commit your project

  git commit -m "Initial commit"

• Set up a remote: as far as I understand a remote is a git repository that is not your current repository. You can use a file share or like me connect to the remote repository via ssh (there are of course other options too....).It is a convention to call the remote origin.

  git remote add origin ssh://user@ipaddress/~/gitreponame

• So now everything is set up, let us push:

  git push origin master

• To test out that my thing is really in the remote repository I have quickly created a new folder with git init and added the same remote. Then I have said:

  git pull . remotes/origin/master

• And yes everything was there copied. :)