Building up a personal Git server with web interface
by Jakub Narębski, Rasmus Voss, Aske Olsson, Ferdinando Santacroce
Git: Mastering Version Control
- Git: Mastering Version Control
- Table of Contents
- Git: Mastering Version Control
- Git: Mastering Version Control
- Credits
- Preface
- I. Module 1
- 1. Getting Started with Git
- 2. Git Fundamentals – Working Locally
- 3. Git Fundamentals – Working Remotely
- 4. Git Fundamentals – Niche Concepts, Configurations, and Commands
- Dissecting the Git configuration
- Configuration architecture
- Configuration levels
- Listing configurations
- Editing configuration files manually
- Setting up other environment configurations
- Basic configurations
- 5. Obtaining the Most – Good Commits and Workflows
- The art of committing
- Adopting a workflow – a wise act
- Summary
- 6. Migrating to Git
- 7. Git Resources
- II. Module 2
- 1. Navigating Git
- 2. Configuration
- 3. Branching, Merging, and Options
- 4. Rebase Regularly and Interactively, and Other Use Cases
- 5. Storing Additional Information in Your Repository
- 6. Extracting Data from the Repository
- 7. Enhancing Your Daily Work with Git Hooks, Aliases, and Scripts
- Introduction
- Using a branch description in the commit message
- Creating a dynamic commit message template
- Using external information in the commit message
- Preventing the push of specific commits
- Configuring and using Git aliases
- Configuring and using Git scripts
- Setting up and using a commit template
- 8. Recovering from Mistakes
- Introduction
- Undo – remove a commit completely
- Undo – remove a commit and retain the changes to files
- Undo – remove a commit and retain the changes in the staging area
- Undo – working with a dirty area
- Redo – recreate the latest commit with new changes
- Revert – undo the changes introduced by a commit
- Reverting a merge
- Viewing past Git actions with git reflog
- Finding lost changes with git fsck
- 9. Repository Maintenance
- Introduction
- Pruning remote branches
- Running garbage collection manually
- Turning off automatic garbage collection
- Splitting a repository
- Rewriting history – changing a single file
- Back up your repositories as mirror repositories
- A quick submodule how-to
- Subtree merging
- Submodule versus subtree merging
- 10. Patching and Offline Sharing
- 11. Git Plumbing and Attributes
- Introduction
- Displaying the repository information
- Displaying the tree information
- Displaying the file information
- Writing a blob object to the database
- Writing a tree object to the database
- Writing a commit object to the database
- Keyword expansion with attribute filters
- Metadata diff of binary files
- Storing binaries elsewhere
- Checking the attributes of a file
- Attributes to export an archive
- 12. Tips and Tricks
- III. Module 3
- 1. Git Basics in Practice
- An introduction to version control and Git
- Git by example
- Repository setup
- Creating a Git repository
- Cloning the repository and creating the first commit
- Publishing changes
- Examining history and viewing changes
- Renaming and moving files
- Updating your repository (with merge)
- Creating a tag
- Resolving a merge conflict
- Adding files in bulk and removing files
- Undoing changes to a file
- Creating a new branch
- Merging a branch (no conflicts)
- Undoing an unpublished merge
- Summary
- 2. Exploring Project History
- 3. Developing with Git
- 4. Managing Your Worktree
- Ignoring files
- File attributes
- Fixing mistakes with the reset command
- Stashing away your changes
- Managing worktrees and the staging area
- Multiple working directories
- Summary
- 5. Collaborative Development with Git
- 6. Advanced Branching Techniques
- Types and purposes of branches
- Branching workflows and release engineering
- Interacting with branches in remote repositories
- Summary
- 7. Merging Changes Together
- 8. Keeping History Clean
- An introduction to Git internals
- Rewriting history
- Amending history without rewriting
- Summary
- 9. Managing Subprojects – Building a Living Framework
- Managing library and framework dependencies
- Managing large Git repositories
- Summary
- 10. Customizing and Extending Git
- 11. Git Administration
- 12. Git Best Practices
- 1. Git Basics in Practice
- A. Bibliography
- Index
- Configuration architecture
- Dissecting the Git configuration
In the office where I work, I was the first person who started to use Git for production code. At some point, after months of little trials in my spare time, I gained courage and converted all the Subversion repositories, where I usually work alone, into Git ones.
Unfortunately, firm IT policies forbid me to use external source code repositories; so no GitHub or Bitbucket. To make things even worse, I also could not obtain a Linux server, and take advantage of great web interfaces like Gitosis, GitLab, and so on. So I started to Google around the web for a solution, and I finally found a solution that can be useful for people in a similar condition.
SCM Manager (https://www.scm-manager.org/) is a very easy solution to share your Git repositories in a local Windows network. It offers a standalone solution to install and make it work on top of Apache Web Server directly in Windows. Though it is built in Java, you can make it work even in Linux or Mac.
It can manage Subversion, Git, and Mercurial repositories, allowing you to define users, groups, and so on. It has a good list of plugins too for other version control systems and other development related tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, and so on. There's also a Gravatar plugin and an Active Directory plugin, to let you and other colleagues use default domain credentials to access your internal repositories.
I've been using this solution for about two years without a hitch, excluding only some configuration related annoyances during updates, due to my custom path personalization.
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