How to deploy code on a remote host: push, ssh, pull

[git-wiki.git] / pep-git.txt

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@@ -75,12 +75,18 @@ Download and installation
 Unix users: download and install using your package manager.
 
 Microsoft Windows: download `git-for-windows
-<https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases>`_.
+<https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases>`_ or `msysGit
+<https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases>`_.
 
 MacOS X: use git installed with `XCode
-<https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/>`_ or download
+<https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/>`_ or download from
+`MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=git>`_ or
 `git-osx-installer
-<http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/>`_.
+<http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/>`_ or
+install git with `Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>`_: ``brew install git``.
+
+`Atlassins's SourceTree <https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/>`_ is a free
+Git and Mercurial GUI client for Windows or Mac.
 
 Initial configuration
 ---------------------
@@ -104,10 +110,22 @@ local repo has two branches ``v1`` and ``v2``. For most examples the
 currently checked out branch is ``v2``. That is, it's assumed you have
 done something like that::
 
+    $ git clone -b v2 http://git.python.org/python.git
+    $ cd python
+    $ git branch v1 origin/v1
+
+The last command creates a new local branch v1 and sets
+remotes/origin/v1 as its upstream remote branch.
+
+The same result can achieved with commands::
+
     $ git clone -b v1 http://git.python.org/python.git
     $ cd python
-    $ git fetch origin v2:v2
-    $ git checkout -b v2
+    $ git checkout --track origin/v2
+
+The last command creates a new local branch v2, sets
+remotes/origin/v2 as its upstream remote branch and checks it out into
+the working directory.
 
 
 Branches and branches
@@ -156,8 +174,9 @@ When you do an initial clone like this::
     $ git clone -b v1 http://git.python.org/python.git
 
 git clones remote repository ``http://git.python.org/python.git`` to
-directory ``python``, creates remote branches and checks out branch
-``v1`` into the working directory.
+directory ``python``, creates remote branches, creates a local branch
+``v1``, configure it to track upstream remotes/origin/v1 branch and
+checks out ``v1`` into the working directory.
 
 Updating local and remote branches
 ----------------------------------
@@ -264,6 +283,12 @@ non-bare repository: git refuses to update remote working directory.
 You really should push only to bare repositories. For non-bare
 repositories git prefers pull-based workflow.
 
+When you want to deploy code on a remote host and can only use push
+(because your workstation is behind a firewall and you cannot pull
+from it) you do that in two steps using two repositories: you push
+from the workstation to a bare repo on the remote host, ssh to the
+remote host and pull from the bare repo to a non-bare deployment repo.
+
 Tags
 ''''
 
@@ -280,7 +305,7 @@ For example::
 
 Git doesn't automatically pushes tags. That allows you to have private
 tags (lightweight tags are also private for a repo, they cannot be
-pushed). To push tag(s) list them explicitly::
+pushed). To push tags list them explicitly::
 
     $ git push origin tag 1.4.2
     $ git push origin v1 v2 tag 2.1.7