SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

Git differs from CVS in that every working tree contains a repository with a full copy of the project history, and no repository is inherently more important than any other. However, you can emulate the CVS model by designating a single shared repository which people can synchronize with; this document explains how to do that.

Some basic familiarity with Git is required. Having gone through gittutorial(7) and gitglossary(7) should be sufficient.

Developing against a shared repository

Suppose a shared repository is set up in /pub/repo.git on the host foo.com. Then as an individual committer you can clone the shared repository over ssh with:

$ git clone foo.com:/pub/repo.git/ my-project
$ cd my-project

and hack away. The equivalent of cvs update is

$ git pull origin

which merges in any work that others might have done since the clone operation. If there are uncommitted changes in your working tree, commit them first before running git pull.

Note	The pull command knows where to get updates from because of certain configuration variables that were set by the first git clone command; see `git config -l` and the git-config(1) man page for details.

You can update the shared repository with your changes by first committing your changes, and then using the git push command:

$ git push origin master

to "push" those commits to the shared repository. If someone else has updated the repository more recently, git push, like cvs commit, will complain, in which case you must pull any changes before attempting the push again.

In the git push command above we specify the name of the remote branch to update (master). If we leave that out, git push tries to update any branches in the remote repository that have the same name as a branch in the local repository. So the last push can be done with either of:

$ git push origin
$ git push foo.com:/pub/project.git/

as long as the shared repository does not have any branches other than master.

Setting Up a Shared Repository

We assume you have already created a Git repository for your project, possibly created from scratch or from a tarball (see gittutorial(7)), or imported from an already existing CVS repository (see the next section).

Assume your existing repo is at /home/alice/myproject. Create a new "bare" reposit