How to set up git server on local machine (Windows)

To configure git server on local windows machine, you can follow these steps:

Setup Git Server Repo:

1. Go to folder, where you want to initialize the server, specify a name without spaces (else you will need to use quotes whenever accessing this folder)
2. Open this folder in command prompt and type this command to initiate server repo.

   //git init <repo-name>.git --bare
   
   git init mylocalrepo.git --bare
   
   

   

   mylocalrepo is the repository name.

   (Note: to avoid any issues later, its better to append the suffix '.git' to the repository name)

The git server repo is setup.

Setup Git Client/Clone:

1. Go to the folder, where you want to initialize the client.
2. Open this folder in command prompt and type this command to initiate client repo.

   //git clone <path_to_your_server>
   
   git clone C:\_Data\Test\GitServer\mylocalrepo.git
   

   You may need to change the back-slash "\" to forward-slash "/" in the path.

The client repo is setup.

You can try to make chages in client repo and push to git server.

Manually create a new file (readme.txt) in client folder, and make some changes.

You can stage this file:

git add .

Commit the changes with custom message:

git commit -m "added readme file"

Push the changes to git server:

git push