GIT and GitWeb Install

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  hope you already have apache2 installed and its conf are in
  /etc/apache2/
  copied from
  
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  Install Git packages as needed
  

  $ sudo apt-get install it git-core gitk gitweb
  if your apache www directory is pointing to ~/www
  $ cd ~/www/
  $ mkdir gitweb
  $ cd gitweb
  

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  copying gitwebfiles to local www
  

  $ cp /usr/share/gitweb/* ~/www/gitweb
  check the index.cgi has the cgi code in it
  

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  add gitweb directory to apache2 configuration by creating a “gitweb” file inside apache conf.d directory:
  

  $ nano /etc/apache/conf.d/gitweb
  Alias /gitweb /home/roger/www/gitweb
  
    Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  
  

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  $ nano /etc/gitweb.conf
  

  # path to git projects (.git)
  $projectroot = "/home/roger/z-git-repos";
  
  # directory to use for temp files
  $git_temp = "/tmp";
  
  # target of the home link on top of all pages
  #$home_link = $my_uri || "/";
  
  # html text to include at home page
  $home_text = "indextext.html";
  
  # file with project list; by default, simply scan the projectroot dir.
  $projects_list = $projectroot;
  ##$projects_list = "/home/git/projects.list";
  
  # stylesheet to use
  $stylesheet = "/gitweb/gitweb.css";
  
  # logo to use
  $logo = "/gitweb/git-logo.png";
  
  # the 'favicon'
  $favicon = "/gitweb/git-favicon.png";
  

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  restart apache2 web server:
  
  

  $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
  

  Now you should be able to view gitweb listing all GIT projects under /home/roger/z-git-repos/
  http://localhost/gitweb
  
  
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  Your repo can be your shared local directory
  or you can have git-daemon running on local and pointing to /home/roger/z-git-repos/ as repo-root
  

  $git daemon --reuseaddr --base-path=/home/roger/z-git-repos --export-all --verbose --enable=receive-pack
  

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  Now steps to put a local project on this git-repo:
  say you have project which is Not in git (like bare local file system) as ~/projects-try/test-project
  with files in it like src/blah
  

  cd test-project
  test-project $ 
  test-project $ git init
  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/roger/projects-try/test-project/.git/
  test-project $ git add .
  test-project $ git commit -a -m 'Initial repo creation'
  test-project $ cd ..
  ## where ~/z-git-repos/ is repo' server's root dir , like www of apache :)
  projects-try $ git clone --bare ./test-project ~/z-git-repos/test-project.git
  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/roger/z-git-repos/test-project.git/
  projects-try $ cd ~/z-git-repos/test-project.git
  test-project.git $ git --bare update-server-info
  test-project.git $ mv hooks/post-update.sample hooks/post-update
  test-project.git $ chmod a+x hooks/post-update
  test-project.git $ touch git-daemon-export-ok
  test-project.git $ git config core.sharedRepository group
  test-project.git $ 
  
  ## then rename local ~/projects-try/test-project as ~/projects-try/test-project-junk
  then checkout the master, so that we continue the server's repo  as master
  cd ~/projects-try
  mv test-project test-project-junk
  git clone git://roger/test-project.git
  

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  now you have master's copy from repo's server which is shared by other users
  and you work on it as that is the master trunk
  now you can trash out the "test-project-junk"