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    Set-up remote git repository on a standard server
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    The first thing to do is to install Git on the remote server.

    Once you do that the rest of the process is split into three sections:

    1. Server set-up
    2. Local set-up (push commits)
    3. Server (pull commits)

    Server set-up
    ---
    * `ssh -pxxxx [email protected]` (this is you connecting to your remote server)
    * `cd ../` (this gets you to the 'absolute root' of the server)
    * `cd www/..../` (navigate to the directory one level above your website directory - e.g. your website directory being where you would upload your `HTML` files etc)

    *Note*: if (for example) your web directory is `httpdocs` then move up one level from there.

    The following example assumes `httpdocs` is your web directory...

    * `rm -rf httpdocs` (remove the web directory - you'll recreate it again in a minute)
    * `mkdir httpdocs && cd httpdocs` (create new web directory folder and move inside it)
    * `git init` (initiate new git repo)
    * `cd ../` (jump back up a directory level)

    The following three commands are the *black magic* for getting a remote git repo setup:

    * `git clone --bare httpdocs httpdocs.git`
    * `mv httpdocs httpdocs.backup`
    * `git clone httpdocs.git`

    Local set-up (push commits)
    ---
    * `cd ~/Desktop/Sites/myWebsite`
    * `git init`
    * `git add *`
    * `git commit -m 'Start of new project'`
    * `git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]:xxxx/www/.../httpdocs.git`
    * `git push origin master`

    Server (pull commits)
    ---
    * `cd ../`
    * `cd www/..../httpdocs/`
    * `git fetch`
    * `git diff origin/master`
    * `git merge origin/master`