I'm searching for the way to get $ go get work with private repository, after many google try.
The first try:
$ go get -v gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go
Fetching https://gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go?go-get=1
https fetch failed.
Fetching http://gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from http://gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go?go-get=1 (status code 200)
import "gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go": parse http://gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go?go-get=1: no go-import meta tags
package gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go: unrecognized import path "gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go
Yep, it did not see the meta tags because I could not know how to provide login information.
The second try:
Follow https://gist.github.com/shurcooL/6927554. Add config to .gitconfig.
[url "ssh://git#gitlab.com/"]
insteadOf = https://gitlab.com/
$ go get -v gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go --> not work
$ go get -v gitlab.com/secmask/awserver-go.git --> work but I got src/gitlab.com/secmask/awserer-go.git
Yes it work but with .git extension with my project name, I can rename it to original but do it everytime $ go get is not so good, is there an otherway?
You have one thing to configure. The example is based on GitHub but this shouldn't change the process:
$ git config --global url.git#github.com:.insteadOf https://github.com/
$ cat ~/.gitconfig
[url "git#github.com:"]
insteadOf = https://github.com/
$ go get github.com/private/repo
For Go modules to work (with Go 1.11 or newer), you'll also need to set the GOPRIVATE variable, to avoid using the public servers to fetch the code:
export GOPRIVATE=github.com/private/repo
The proper way is to manually put the repository in the right place. Once the repository is there, you can use go get -u to update the package and go install to install it. A package named
github.com/secmask/awserver-go
goes into
$GOPATH/src/github.com/secmask/awserver-go
The commands you type are:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/secmask
git clone git#github.com:secmask/awserver-go.git
I had a problem with go get using private repository on gitlab from our company.
I lost a few minutes trying to find a solution. And I did find this one:
You need to get a private token at:
https://gitlab.mycompany.com/profile/account
Configure you git to add extra header with your private token:
$ git config --global http.extraheader "PRIVATE-TOKEN: YOUR_PRIVATE_TOKEN"
Configure your git to convert requests from http to ssh:
$ git config --global url."git#gitlab.mycompany.com:".insteadOf "https://gitlab.mycompany.com/"
Finally you can use your go get normally:
$ go get gitlab.com/company/private_repo
For people using private GitLabs, here's a snippet that may help: https://gist.github.com/MicahParks/1ba2b19c39d1e5fccc3e892837b10e21
Also pasted below:
Problem
The go command line tool needs to be able to fetch dependencies from your private GitLab, but authenticaiton is required.
This assumes your private GitLab is hosted at privategitlab.company.com.
Environment variables
The following environment variables are recommended:
export GO111MODULE=on
export GOPRIVATE=privategitlab.company.com # this is comma delimited if using multiple private repos
The above lines might fit best in your shell startup, like a ~/.bashrc.
Explanation
GO111MODULE=on tells Golang command line tools you are using modules. I have not tested this with projects not using
Golang modules on a private GitLab.
GOPRIVATE=privategitlab.company.com tells Golang command line tools to not use public internet resources for the hostnames
listed (like the public module proxy).
Get a personal access token from your private GitLab
To future proof these instructions, please follow this guide from the GitLab docs.
I know that the read_api scope is required for Golang command line tools to work, and I may suspect read_repository as
well, but have not confirmed this.
Set up the ~/.netrc
In order for the Golang command line tools to authenticate to GitLab, a ~/.netrc file is best to use.
To create the file if it does not exist, run the following commands:
touch ~/.netrc
chmod 600 ~/.netrc
Now edit the contents of the file to match the following:
machine privategitlab.company.com login USERNAME_HERE password TOKEN_HERE
Where USERNAME_HERE is replaced with your GitLab username and TOKEN_HERE is replaced with the access token aquired in the
previous section.
Common mistakes
Do not set up a global git configuration with something along the lines of this:
git config --global url."git#privategitlab.company.com:".insteadOf "https://privategitlab.company.com"
I beleive at the time of writing this, the SSH git is not fully supported by Golang command line tools and this may cause
conflicts with the ~/.netrc.
Bonus: SSH config file
For regular use of the git tool, not the Golang command line tools, it's convient to have a ~/.ssh/config file set up.
In order to do this, run the following commands:
mkdir ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
touch ~/.ssh/config
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config
Please note the permissions on the files and directory above are essentail for SSH to work in it's default configuration on
most Linux systems.
Then, edit the ~/.ssh/config file to match the following:
Host privategitlab.company.com
Hostname privategitlab.company.com
User USERNAME_HERE
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Please note the spacing in the above file matters and will invalidate the file if it is incorrect.
Where USERNAME_HERE is your GitLab username and ~/.ssh/id_rsa is the path to your SSH private key in your file system.
You've already uploaded its public key to GitLab. Here are some instructions.
All of the above did not work for me. Cloning the repo was working correctly but I was still getting an unrecognized import error.
As it stands for Go v1.13, I found in the doc that we should use the GOPRIVATE env variable like so:
$ GOPRIVATE=github.com/ORGANISATION_OR_USER_NAME go get -u github.com/ORGANISATION_OR_USER_NAME/REPO_NAME
Generate a github oauth token here and export your github token as an environment variable:
export GITHUB_TOKEN=123
Set git config to use the basic auth url:
git config --global url."https://$GITHUB_TOKEN:x-oauth-basic#github.com/".insteadOf "https://github.com/"
Now you can go get your private repo.
If you've already got git using SSH, this answer by Ammar Bandukwala is a simple workaround:
$ go get uses git internally. The following one liners will make git and consequently $ go get clone your package via SSH.
Github:
$ git config --global url."git#github.com:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"
BitBucket:
$ git config --global url."git#bitbucket.org:".insteadOf "https://bitbucket.org/"
I came across .netrc and found it relevant to this.
Create a file ~/.netrc with the following content:
machine github.com
login <github username>
password <github password or Personal access tokens >
Done!
Additionally, for latest GO versions, you might need to add this to the environment variables GOPRIVATE=github.com
(I've added it to my .zshrc)
netrc also makes my development environment setup better as my personal github access for HTTPS is been configured now to be used across the machine (just like my SSH configuration).
Generate GitHub personal access tokens: https://github.com/settings/tokens
See this answer for its use with Git on Windows specifically
Ref: netrc man page
If you want to stick with the SSH authentication, then mask the request to use ssh forcefully
git config --global url."git#github.com:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"
More methods for setting up git access: https://gist.github.com/technoweenie/1072829#gistcomment-2979908
That looks like the GitLab issue 5769.
In GitLab, since the repositories always end in .git, I must specify .git at the end of the repository name to make it work, for example:
import "example.org/myuser/mygorepo.git"
And:
$ go get example.org/myuser/mygorepo.git
Looks like GitHub solves this by appending ".git".
It is supposed to be resolved in “Added support for Go's repository retrieval. #5958”, provided the right meta tags are in place.
Although there is still an issue for Go itself: “cmd/go: go get cannot discover meta tag in HTML5 documents”.
After trying multiple solutions my problem still persisted. The final solution after setting up the ~/.netrc and SSH config file, was to add the following line to my ~/.bash_profile
export GOPRIVATE="github.com/[organization]"
I have created a user specific ssh-config, so my user automatically logs in with the correct credentials and key.
First I needed to generate an key-pair
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "my#email.here"
and saved it to e.g ~/.ssh/id_my_domain. Note that this is also the keypair (private and public) I've connected to my Github account, so mine is stored in~/.ssh/id_github_com.
I have then created (or altered) a file called ~/.ssh/config with an entry:
Host github.com
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_github_com
On another server, the "ssh-url" is admin#domain.com:username/private-repo.git and the entry for this server would have been:
Host domain.com
HostName domain.com
User admin
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_domain_com
Just to clarify that you need ensure that the User, Host and HostName is set correctly.
Now I can just browse into the go path and then go get <package>, e.g go get main where the file main/main.go includes the package (from last example above) domain.com:username/private-repo.git.
For me, the solutions offered by others still gave the following error during go get
git#gl.nimi24.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
What this solution required
As stated by others:
git config --global url."git#github.com:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"
Removing the passphrase from my ./ssh/id_rsa key which was used for authenticating the connection to the repository. This can be done by entering an empty password when prompted as a response to:
ssh-keygen -p
Why this works
This is not a pretty workaround as it is always better to have a passphrase on your private key, but it was causing issues somewhere inside OpenSSH.
go get uses internally git, which uses openssh to open the connection. OpenSSH takes the certs necessary for authentication from .ssh/id_rsa. When executing git commands from the command line an agent can take care of opening the id_rsa file for you so that you do not have to specify the passphrase every time, but when executed in the belly of go get, this did not work somewhy in my case. OpenSSH wants to prompt you then for a password but since it is not possible due to how it was called, it prints to its debug log:
read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: No such device or address
And just fails. If you remove the passphrase from the key file, OpenSSH will get to your key without that prompt and it works
This might be caused by Go fetching modules concurrently and opening multiple SSH connections to Github at the same time (as described in this article). This is somewhat supported by the fact that OpenSSH debug log showed the initial connection to the repository succeed, but later tried it again for some reason and this time opted to ask for a passphrase.
However the solution of using SSH connection multiplexing as put forward in the mentioned article did not work for me. For the record, the author suggested adding the collowing conf to the ssh config file for the affected host:
ControlMaster auto
ControlPersist 3600
ControlPath ~/.ssh/%r#%h:%p
But as stated, for me it did not work, maybe I did it wrong
After setting up GOPRIVATE and git config ...
People may still meeting problems like this when fetching private source:
https fetch: Get "https://private/user/repo?go-get=1": EOF
They can't use private repo without .git extension.
The reason is the go tool has no idea about the VCS protocol of this repo, git or svn or any other, unlike github.com or golang.org them are hardcoded into go's source.
Then the go tool will do a https query before fetching your private repo:
https://private/user/repo?go-get=1
If your private repo has no support for https request, please use replace to tell it directly :
require private/user/repo v1.0.0
...
replace private/user/repo => private.server/user/repo.git v1.0.0
https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Remote_import_paths
Make sure you remove your previous gitconfigs, I had the same issue.
Previously I executed gitconfig whose token was expired, when you execute the command next time with new token make sure to delete previous one.
first I tried
[url "ssh://git#github.com/"]
insteadOf = https://github.com/
but it didn't worked for my local.
I tried
ssh -t git#github.com
and it shows my ssh is fine.
finally, I fix the problem to tell the go get to consider all as private and use ssh instead of HTTPS.
adding export GOPRIVATE=*
For standalone/final repos, an as a quick fix, why don't just to name the module within the go.mod as a package using your company's domain ... ?
module go.yourcompany.tld/the_repo
go.yourcompany.tld don't even have to exist as a valid (sub)domain...
Also, in the same go.mod you can use replacement block/lines to use private repos previously cloned the same way (within a respective folder cloned also in $GOPATH/src/go.yourcompany.tld) (why do we have to depend too much in GitHub?)
Edit
Needless to say that a private repo usually shall be a private repo, typically a standard git repo, right? With that, why not just to git clone and then go get within the cloned folder?
It's Hard Code In Go Get. Not The Git Reason. So Modify Go Source.
Reason:
repoRootForImportDynamic Will Request: https://....go-get
// RepoRootForImportPath analyzes importPath to determine the
// version control system, and code repository to use.
func RepoRootForImportPath(importPath string, mod ModuleMode, security web.SecurityMode) (*RepoRoot, error) {
rr, err := repoRootFromVCSPaths(importPath, security, vcsPaths)
if err == errUnknownSite {
rr, err = repoRootForImportDynamic(importPath, mod, security)
if err != nil {
err = importErrorf(importPath, "unrecognized import path %q: %v", importPath, err)
}
}
if err != nil {
rr1, err1 := repoRootFromVCSPaths(importPath, security, vcsPathsAfterDynamic)
if err1 == nil {
rr = rr1
err = nil
}
}
So add gitlab domain to vcsPaths will ok.
Download go source code:
vi ./src/cmd/go/internal/vcs/vcs.go
Look for code below:
var vcsPaths = []*vcsPath{
// GitHub
{
pathPrefix: "github.com",
regexp: lazyregexp.New(`^(?P<root>github\.com/[A-Za-z0-9_.\-]+/[A-Za-z0-9_.\-]+)(/[A-Za-z0-9_.\-]+)*$`),
vcs: "git",
repo: "https://{root}",
check: noVCSSuffix,
},
add Code As Follow,XXXX Is Your Domain:
// GitLab
{
pathPrefix: "gitlab.xxxx.com",
regexp: lazyregexp.New(`^(?P<root>gitlab.xxxx\.com/[A-Za-z0-9_.\-]+/[A-Za-z0-9_.\-]+)(/[A-Za-z0-9_.\-]+)*$`),
vcs: "git",
repo: "https://{root}",
check: noVCSSuffix,
},
compile and replace go.
I have a Github account with multiple projects.
I have cloned these projects to my windows 10 computer using ssh key.
some time later, it appear my ssh keys were compromise so i delete my ssh on Github and locally, then regenerate new ones :
4096 bits
rsa2
saved the pub as ~/.ssh/git_id_rsa.pub
add the pub key to my Github ssh keys
saved the priv as ~/.ssh/git/git_id_rsa.ppk
converted to Openssh format as ~/.ssh/git_id_rsa
the fact is I want different ssh keys for my different web tools (one for GitHub, one for DigitalOcean, one for OVH cloud, etc...) and I want to specify witch key to use when connecting to each host. thats why I change the default name for the ssh generated with PuttyGen (and converted with the same).
I don't have passphrase on the git_id_rsa.ppk (nor git_id_rsa) keys, as it seems that GitHub dont like them (saw long time ago).
I've configure my (projecytdir)/.git/config like bellow :
[remote "origin"]
url = git#github.com:hdGuild/JenkinsServerOnDO.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
identityfile= ~/.ssh/git_id_rsa
But when I try a Git Pull, I've got the following error :
git#github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
Following the following answers I've created the ~/.ssh/config file with the following (using OpenSSH key for GitHub), and it works :
Host github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/git_id_rsa
The fact is that if I need the ~/.ssh/config file, why would I need to configure my local git with (projecytdir)/.git/config as I describe it above ?
I would like to configure my local git to use the right ssh key for Github, without having to explain it in my ~/.ssh/config file.
I'm sure it is (again) a configuration problem and I miss something somewhere, but I can't find where.
Please help :)
thank-you
Okay,
As previously, I answer my own question :D
After some more research, I found this post that explain how to specify in Git local config file, the ssh key to use for git sh connection.
The command is simply, in the above explained case, the following while in project directory :
git config core.sshCommand "ssh -i ~/.ssh/git_id_rsa -F /dev/null"
This way, the git_id-rsa will be used by git for ssh connections on this particular project (as it is a local configuration).
Thank-you for reading.
Good day! I try to migrate from glide to go modules (private gitlab repos)
and checkout code via ssh
I have a simple project with an import from private gitlab repo.
go.mod looks like:
module my.private.package/modtest
go 1.12
require my.private.package/statistics v1.0.0
when I try to build my app or run test I get:
go: my.private.package/statistics#v1.0.0: unrecognized import path "my.private.package/statistics" (parse https://my.private.package/statistics?go-get=1: no go-import meta tags ())
go: error loading module requirements
I Tried to add settings to git config:
[url "ssh://git#my.gitlab.server:9999"]
insteadOf = https://my.private.package
But still getting this error.
Is there any way to make it work?
Thank you.
I've dealt with Go modules and a private GitLab before. Our private GitLab has groups and subgroups. The piece you are likely missing is ~/.netrc and you may have an improper global git configuration.
I've made a GitHub gist for this. You can find it here: https://gist.github.com/MicahParks/1ba2b19c39d1e5fccc3e892837b10e21
You can find the gist pasted below:
Problem
The go command line tool needs to be able to fetch dependencies from your private GitLab, but authenticaiton is required.
This assumes your private GitLab is hosted at privategitlab.company.com.
Environment variables
The following environment variables are recommended:
export GO111MODULE=on
export GOPRIVATE=privategitlab.company.com
The above lines might fit best in your shell startup, like a ~/.bashrc.
Explanation
GO111MODULE=on tells Golang command line tools you are using modules. I have not tested this with projects not using
Golang modules on a private GitLab.
GOPRIVATE=privategitlab.company.com tells Golang command line tools to not use public internet resources for the hostnames
listed (like the public module proxy).
Get a personal access token from your private GitLab
To future proof these instructions, please follow this guide from the GitLab docs.
I know that the read_api scope is required for Golang command line tools to work, and I may suspect read_repository as
well, but have not confirmed this.
Set up the ~/.netrc
In order for the Golang command line tools to authenticate to GitLab, a ~/.netrc file is best to use.
To create the file if it does not exist, run the following commands:
touch ~/.netrc
chmod 600 ~/.netrc
Now edit the contents of the file to match the following:
machine privategitlab.company.com login USERNAME_HERE password TOKEN_HERE
Where USERNAME_HERE is replaced with your GitLab username and TOKEN_HERE is replaced with the access token aquired in the
previous section.
Common mistakes
Do not set up a global git configuration with something along the lines of this:
git config --global url."git#privategitlab.company.com:".insteadOf "https://privategitlab.company.com"
I beleive at the time of writing this, the SSH git is not fully supported by Golang command line tools and this may cause
conflicts with the ~/.netrc.
Bonus: SSH config file
For regular use of the git tool, not the Golang command line tools, it's convient to have a ~/.ssh/config file set up.
In order to do this, run the following commands:
mkdir ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
touch ~/.ssh/config
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config
Please note the permissions on the files and directory above are essentail for SSH to work in it's default configuration on
most Linux systems.
Then, edit the ~/.ssh/config file to match the following:
Host privategitlab.company.com
Hostname privategitlab.company.com
User USERNAME_HERE
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Please note the spacing in the above file matters and will invalidate the file if it is incorrect.
Where USERNAME_HERE is your GitLab username and ~/.ssh/id_rsa is the path to your SSH private key in your file system.
You've already uploaded its public key to GitLab. Here are some instructions.
What version of Go are you using? If it's Go 1.13 or later, the default is to download modules through proxy.golang.org. You can change that for a particular set of packages using the GOPRIVATE environment variable.
Here is a quote from go help module-private, which I highly recommend reading in full. Once a module is fetched directly, it should use the same git/ssh logic as before modules.
The GOPRIVATE environment variable controls which modules the go command
considers to be private (not available publicly) and should therefore not use the
proxy or checksum database. The variable is a comma-separated list of
glob patterns (in the syntax of Go's path.Match) of module path prefixes.
For example,
GOPRIVATE=*.corp.example.com,rsc.io/private
causes the go command to treat as private any module with a path prefix
matching either pattern, including git.corp.example.com/xyzzy, rsc.io/private,
and rsc.io/private/quux.
I have created an ssh key pair using putty within Source Tree on Windows, and then added that to my repo client (I use Gitlab on a personal server).
This works fine from gitbash (cloning and pushing etc) and via SourceTree for OSX but after adding the .ppk key to pageant, which is actively running and seems to have loaded the key correctly, I cannot seem to clone via SourceTree. I get a "This is not a valid source Path/URL" when adding the repo path with details stating:
fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you
have the correct access rights and repository exists.
If I add an existing repo that I have cloned using the same ssh key pair via git bash (by just drag dropping the folder into Source Tree for Windows) that seems to work up to a point - I can commit and see history etc. When I try to Push, however, it fails with much the same message (I've altered the repo path):
git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false push -v
--tags origin master:master Pushing to git#MyServer.com:MyRepo.git
fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you
have the correct access rights and the repository exists.
Completed with errors, see above.
As far as I can tell Pageant is up and running with the correct (well only) ssh key on my machine.
Any help is very welcomed.
Ok so this is a little embarrasing/confusing.
It would seem that I did not copy the correct public key onto my repo management web interface. The thing is, I copied the public key from git bash using the command:
clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
But that seems to give me a different public key from what I actually get opening id_rsa.pub in a text editor...
Is that normal? Why is it different? Why does it work within gitbash and not in SourceTree (via pageant).
Anyway, copying the contents of my public key in directly from the file when opened in notepad got things to work with SourceTree and Pageant etc.
I have tried following how-set-up-your-own-private-git-server-linux and private-remote-git-repositories-ubuntu-linode but I am still having problems.
My local environment is windows and my remote linux. I have a couple of questions:
In the first article it describes setting up a public ssh key for the server - I've never done this before and I'm not sure where to type the commands (not even sure whether local or remote!!): ssh myuser#server.com mkdir .ssh and scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub myuser#server.com:.ssh/authorized_keys
On my local dev machine should I be running msysgit? Is there an alternative because the version I installed is taking up 1.4 GB! I installed msysGit-netinstall-1.7.4-preview20110204.exe from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
I tried skipping making the git user and public key, created the repositories on the remote machine but then when I try git remote add origin ssh://[username]#[domain/ip/hostname]/srv/git/[project-name] as root user it says: fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
I'm not sure if this should be here or if it would be best migrated over to a different site, but since I might be able to help I'll go ahead and answer.
I just skimmed the articles you linked. It looks like they both deal with accessing a git server over ssh, which you mention, so that's what I'll focus on.
First, on your server:
You need to set up an account on the server so that you can log in. This can be either a generic git account, or your own personal account. For the moment we'll assume that you are setting it up to work with a personal account. What you want to do is create your account, then somewhere accessible to that account (say, in your home directory), create the git repository.
mkdir myrepo.git
cd myrepo.git
git --bare init --shared=all
So now you have a git repository up on the server. Depending on the git client you are using, you might not need to mess with keys right now. If SSH is configured on your server to allow password login then you can probably just connect and enter your password when you need to interact with the server. If you want to set up keys, what you need to do is to generate an ssh public key. I don't know off hand how to do this in windows, but in linux you'd do something like:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 1024
That command will generate two files, "id_rsa" and "id_rsa.pub"; whatever tool you use should also generate two files, a public key and a private key. They might have different names, but assume for now that "id_rsa.pub" is the name of your public key file.
You want to copy the public key to the server, you can use scp, ftp, or just move it over using a thumbdrive. Either way, once you get it onto the server, and it's accessible by your user, log in as your user on the server. You want to add the public key to your "authorized_hosts" file, so after logging in to your account on the server, do this:
cd
mkdir .ssh
cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_hosts
rm id_rsa.pub
Now, from your workstation you need to configure your ssh client to use the private key your generated. Again, I don't know how to do this on Windows and it will probably vary depending on what ssh client you are using, so you'll need to get that information somewhere else.
Next, you need to create your local repository, add some files, and make a commit. Note that you can't clone the remote repository you made yet because there's nothing in there. Once you have some commits made locally, you need to set the remote server in your repository.
If you are using the git command line tools, you can run:
git remote add origin user#yourserver:myrepo.git
If you put the repository somewhere other than your home directory, use the full path:
git remote add origin user#yourserver:/path/to/repo.git
Note that you need the ".git" in there, since your directory name has ".git" as part of the name.
If you are using a GUI tool, then you instead just edit the configuration file for the repository. This will be in the top level of your repository under ".git/config". You'll want to add something like
[remote "origin"]
url = user#yourserver:/path/to/repo.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
Now that your remote is configured, and you have some commits locally, you can push your master branch up to the server. If you're using the command line use:
git push origin master
Or, if you're working on a different branch:
git push origin mybranch
If you are using a GUI frontend for get then you'll need to look up the documentation for that tool on how to push.
I would like to recommend to use Gitolite that allows to setup git hosting on central srever with great features like access control and creating/managin repositories etc.
And for windows, the tool called git-scm can be used for setting up git client and also have GUI panel for git repositories. After installation of this git tool, you will get a git bash tool and a git GUI.
Gitolite makes settting up of a git hosting server and client very simple.
I hope this may help new people who are looking for an efficient solution for settting up git hosting server and clients in some easy to understand simple steps.
I followed the most voted answer and I didnt get it to work. I found this tutorial:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys--2
and I got it working. I think the problem was that, in the server, the public key is to be copied to a file "authorized_keys" and not "authorized_hosts".
I had been trying to generate the key pairs using putty but couldn't get it to work. In the end I realised that I could generate the keys via the msysgit command line using ssh-keygen -C "git#example.com" -t rsa. Copy the public key to the server using nano /home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys and hey presto!
I had downloaded the full source code hence the size! The non-source app, Git-1.7.4-preview20110204.exe was just 13MB via http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?can=3