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title: "You already have a git server: (Maurycy's blog)"
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date: 2025-10-29
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It's so easy to forget low level tech sometimes.  Things that are dead simple and just work without a hitch.  `git` is one of those rock solid things thats very easy to remember all that it does, this is a classic use case.

This just works

``` bash
cd /parent/directory/for/repo
git clone ssh://username@server/path/to/repo
```

In order to recieve you must update the remote to allow recieve.

``` bash
git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead
```

Now you can pull update push.  

It's funny how this was the way I first learned to do Continuous Deployment to a RHEL7 machine, also how Heroku worked, but its so easy to forget this solution is there.  I come across it every few years and immediately have a few use cases in mind.