git-shell - New repositories

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Pierre de LESPINAY picture Pierre de LESPINAY · Jan 22, 2014 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

I have a server with a dedicated git user and repositories
I'm trying to use the git-shell method to allow my devs to work on several projects.

I'm about to change the shell of my git user to git-shell
If I do that, I won't be able to connect with a standard shell anymore (that's the idea).

Question: So how will I create new repositories ?

Will I have each time to connect with a sudoer and create the repo then chown it ?

Answer

Evgeny picture Evgeny · Feb 26, 2015

You can use a git-shell-commands directory to extend git-shell with custom commands, these can then be remotely executed using ssh.

For example create ~git/git-shell-commands/newgit with this content:

#!/bin/sh
mkdir -p ~/$1
cd ~/$1
git init --bare

Then chmod +x ~git/git-shell-commands/newgit to allow execution.

To use it, run:

ssh git@server newgit newrepo.git

this is enough to create a new bare git repository, it can be cloned using:

git clone git@server:newrepo.git

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