Git in Practice

Chapter 11. Hosting a repository

This chapter covers

• Creating a repository in a format for hosting a server
• Mirroring an existing repository for hosting a server
• Sharing a repository with a local network
• Viewing a repository in a web browser
• Providing advanced Git hosting with other software

You saw in technique 6 how to push to remote repositories, provided by various organizations on the internet, as a way of sharing your Git repositories with others. Sometimes, though, you may wish to host a remote Git repository on a machine you control—for example, to

• Temporarily share a Git repository on your machine with another computer on the same network
• Keep a full backup of an external Git repository on a server you control
• Provide an ...