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How to publish a git repository on http

Written by Solène, on 07 October 2016.
Tags: #unix #git #versioning

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Here is an how-to in order to make a git repository available for cloning through a simple http server. This method only allow people to fetch the repository, not to push. I wanted to set-up this to get my code, I don’t plan to have any commit on it from other people at this time so it’s enough.

In a folder publicly available from your http server clone your repository in bare mode. As explained in the https://git-scm.com/book/tr/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protocols:

$ cd /var/www/htdocs/some-path/
$ git clone --bare /path/to/git_project gitproject.git
$ cd gitproject.git
$ git update-server-info
$ mv hooks/post-update.sample hooks/post-update
$ chmod o+x hooks/post-update

Then you will be able to clone the repository with

$ git clone https://your-hostname/some-path/gitproject.git

I’ve lost time because I did not execute git update-server-info so the clone wasn’t possible.