This page is a guide to using the Git version control system on Accelerators.

To create a new Git repository on your Accelerator, first edit your ~/.bashrc file and add this to the top:

  export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/local/bin

Then run something like:

  cd ~
  mkdir git
  mkdir git/myapp.git
  cd git/myapp.git
  git --bare init

To push an (existing) app from your local machine up to the remote repository on your accelerator:

  cd myapp
  git init
  git add .
  git commit -m "initial import"
  git remote add origin ssh://login@hostname/home/username/git/myapp.git
  git push origin master

Sometimes you will require some setup first. Ssh is not so smart with paths, and fails to read .profile or any of the usual suspects to get a proper PATH set, so it typically will fail with the following message:

  spacemonkey@localhost$ git push origin master
  bash: git-receive-pack: command not found
  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

For background on this and using shared accelerators, there is a forum thread that covers this information.

If this is your problem as well, you simply need to update your .bashrc in your home directory on your accelerator. The paths are different however based on whether you are using a shared or dedicated accelerator (somebody please verify this on the shared side).

For a web accelerator, you would edit ~/.ssh/environment:

  export PATH=/opt/local/libexec/git-core:$PATH

For a shared accelerator, you would edit ~/.bashrc:

  export PATH=/usr/local/libexec/git-core:$PATH

At that point your remote push should work as expected.

(Perhaps there's a more standard convention for repositories; feel free to edit this to reflect that.)