Git is a Source Code Management (SCM) system that helps you and/or your team to track the changes on your source code.

Scenario

I’m going to install git on a Ubuntu server 12.04.4 LTS to store all my projects. This server is hosted on a data center such as DigitalOcean.com. To manage my server I’m going to use ssh, so I’m going to take advantage if it to use git over a secure connection.

Installation

To install git, I need to install the package git-core. First, I’m going to update the package repositories and then, I’ll install git-core.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core

Configuration

After installation, we are going to create group and user git. At this point, I’m going to create the user with the Bash shell because it’s going to be helpful during configuration. Before I finish the whole configuration, I’m going to…