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#Wpengine.com git add remote how to#

This is pretty standard git and I don’t think I need to outline this for you. To allow that file to be executed by the system.Īdd the new repository locally as a git remote

When you’re done typing everything from #! (hash-bang) to checkout -f, type control-d to save the file.

Git -work-tree=path_to_folder -git-dir=git_repo.git checkout -f In my case, it was the website (WordPress theme) directory. We need to have the files we push to the new repository automatically moved to the folder we need them in.

The bare repository is now created, but we aren’t done.

Per Jon Saints, bare repositories are for sharing, as opposed to the standard git init repos that are for working. Notice that we are creating a bare repository.

Create the directory that you want to house the repository:.

I didn’t have to do any of this, since git was already present on my server. Here is how Dreamhost suggests…if you have terminal access, just use apt-get. If it is not, there are a number of ways to do this.

Make sure git is installed on your server.

Other hosts, if they give this access, likely have a similar setting.

#Wpengine.com git add remote how to#

Make sure you have shell access to the server, in my case, Dreamhost has a wiki article on how to enable.Thanks to Brandon Evans for the bulk of the setup, and Etel Sverdlov on Digital Ocean for the SSH setup instructions.

I don’t have a staging environment (nor do I need one for this project presently), but otherwise the end result is nearly the same. Since I’ve come to enjoy the ease of deployments with Git on WP Engine, I immediately started looking for a way to do the same thing with Dreamhost. Since WP Engine can be costly, and Dreamhost offers free hosting for non-profits, we are going to save some money and go that route.