Creating a shared git repository on local filesystem

Kohei Nozaki — Sun, 1 Mar 2015 08:04:52 +0000

Tested with OS X 10.9.5.

Requirement

There are 2 users (kyle and jenkins). they want to have a shared git repository named trader on local filesystem. both of them can push changes into the repository.

Recipe

Create a group named trader
```
$ sudo dseditgroup -o create trader
```

Let join kyle nad jenkins into the group trader

$ sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a kyle -t user trader
$ sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a jenkins -t user trader

Create a bare repository

$ cd /Users/Shared
$ mkdir trader.git
$ cd trader.git
$ git init --bare --shared

Change owning group of trader.git to trader
```
$ cd ../
$ chown -R :trader trader.git
```
Make the repository writable by users in trader group
```
$ chmod -R g+w trader.git
```

Testing

Clone the repository
```
$ git clone /Users/Shared/trader.git
```

Make first commit by kyle

$ cd trader
$ echo 'hi there' > hi.txt
$ git add hi.txt
$ git commit -m 'first commit from kyle'

Push to the parent repository
```
$ git push origin master
```
Switch to user jenkins
```
$ sudo su - jenkins
```
Clone the repository
```
$ git clone /Users/Shared/trader.git
```

Make first commit by jenkins

$ cd trader
$ echo hi there from jenkins >> hi.txt
$ git add hi.txt
$ git commit -m 'first commit from jenkins'

Push to the parent repository
```
$ git push origin master
```

Pull the change made by jenkins from user kyle

$ whoami
kyle
$ cat hi.txt
hi there
$ git pull origin master
$ cat hi.txt
hi there
hi there from jenkins

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Creating a shared git repository on local filesystem

Requirement

Recipe

Testing