git: URL format to access remotely local git server

Question

I tried links in this article, seem doesn't work for me: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31801271/what-are-the-supported-git-url-formats

Problem that I have setup a local git server at /srv/repo/ for example, and when I create a repo under it name test.git with --bare under username testuser, I'd like to add this test.git as remote from other local machine in the same network.

For example, local git server has ip address at 192.168.1.10, and I need to add its repo on machine that has ip address of 192.168.1.100 for example.

If I use this URL and change user owner of test.git, I can do a push and pull, meaning it works as expected:

sudo chown -R git:testuser test.git/
sudo chown -R git:testuser test.git/*
git@192.168.1.10:/srv/repo/test.git

But I created repo using another user called testuser, probably user and group owner of repo test.git belong to testuser, and push and pull will fail if I do NOT change the user owner of test.git to git: sudo chown -R git:testuser test.git/*

I'd like to add remote repo as: git://192.168.1.10/~testuser/srv/repo/test.git/ that use testuser as user instead of git user because I create test.git under testuser.

Answer 1

If you are using the SSH protocol to access the server-side repository, your read/write permissions are determined by the user/group/world permissions on the server. To set this permission on the repository, you can use the git init command with the --shared parameter when you create your repository. Setting --shared=true will set the repository to be writable at the group level. All users part of the same group can then write to the repository.

Your steps will then be something like:

mkdir test.git
git init --bare --shared=true test.git

When you use the git protocol, there's a daemon on the server that handles communication. In that case, the daemon and the repository can be owned by the same user.

You can find more details on setting up server-side git in the Git book.