Moving from github
I decided to move all my code from svn to git after I started using GIT with github.com last week. However github plan to charge for private repositories soon so I decided to migrate from github to my slicehost server for private repositories and use github for any public repositories.
This post assumes you already have git installed on you local machine
First of all you will need to install git
apt-get install git-core
Then get you public key and add it to the authorised keys for your github account
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Now clone your repository to your server
git clone git@github.com:GITHUB-USER/REPOSITRY.git /git/REPOSITRY.git
Now clone to you local machine, im using ssh for this as I have the keys setup
git clone git+ssh://USER@YOUR-SERVER.COM/git/REPOSITRY.git REPOSITRY
That should be it, you will now be able to push to your server instead of git hub.
git push origin master
To make commit messages a little easier you can set a git editor, edit this file
mate ~/.bash_login
and add this line
export GIT_EDITOR="mate -w"
