On the internet you’ll see people talking about Gitosis, or just giving over all of their git requirements to github.

Github is great, but if you just want to do a small personal project, with an off-site repository, go set up your VPS as your main git server.

Here’s how you do it.

create a “git” user
```
sudo adduser git
```
add your ssh keys to that user
```
ssh-copy-id git@my.com
```
create a “bare” repository on your server
```
mkdir myRepo.git
git --bare init
```

git remote add origin git@my.com:myRepo.git
git push origin master

BOOM! that is literally all it takes!

Thanks to CommonThread for his tutorial on doing this.

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RudyGems

setting up a simple git server