On 2023-08-22 03:00 +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > After much searching and reading, I have not discovered how to set up > a pair of git repositories to work together. > > I write articles for publication. I typically spend anywhere from > several hours to many days on each article. It is frustrating to work > for an hour or two on a paragraph or a page and then accidentally to > erase what I have written. > > In the past, I have found git to be a very good solution. But now I > am moving to a new computer, and I an having difficulty replicating > the previous setup. > > My needs are simple. I need two git repositories. > > The first is my work space, into which periodically I commit the > article on which I am working. > > The second repository is my backup; it resides on another machine. > Several times a day, I SSH into the backup machine and pull the > working repository. It would be nice to be able to push from WORKING > to BACKUP, eliminating the need to SSH.
Git supports pushing via the ssh protocol, and since you have already set up the ssh connection, the rest is rather simple. > I cloned the WORKING repository from the old host, and the WORKING > repository appears to function correctly. But I do not know how to > configure the BACKUP repository. I tried the BARE option, but I am not > able to push from WORKING to BACKUP. On the backup machine, create a bare repository: $ mkdir -p /path/to/backup-repo.git $ cd /path/to/backup-repo.git $ git init --bare Then you can push from your work machine: $ git push --all ssh://[user@]<backup>/path/to/backup-repo.git $ git push --tags ssh://[user@]<backup>/path/to/backup-repo.git where "<backup>" is the hostname of your backup machine, and "user" is your login name there (which you can usually omit). You probably also want to add the backup repository as a remote, so that you do not have to write the long URL every time you push. Cheers, Sven