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This assumes that gitosis is set up. I will refer to local machine as LOCAL and remote as REMOTE, that LOCAL has full ssh access to REMOTE, and the gitosis directory as $GITOSIS. This will create the initial git repository on REMOTE.

1. on REMOTE, create a key pair
   • ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
   • this creates ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub -- the latter is the one you will need
2. on REMOTE, make sure you have the git server in the .ssh/config
   • Host git
   • HostName 11.22.33.44
   • User git
   • Port 22
3. on LOCAL, make sure you have REMOTE in the .ssh/config
   • Host remoteserver
   • HostName 44.33.22.11
   • User david
   • Port 22
4. if you don't already have a public key, duplicate the first step on LOCAL
5. if you don't already have your public key on the remote server, copy it
   • ssh-copy-id remoteserver
6. copy the id_rsa file you generated on REMOTE to LOCAL -- rename to reflect the hostname and add .pub after it
   • scp remoteserver:.ssh/id_rsa.pub $GITOSIS/keydir/david@remoteserver.pub
7. on LOCAL, edit LOCAL/$GITOSIS/gitosis.conf. The
   • [gitosis]
   • [group remoteguys]
   • members = david@remoteserver
   • writable = remotegit
8. add new files and commit gitosis
   • cd $GITOSIS
   • git add .
   • git commit -a -m 'added remoteserver access'
   • git push
9. then create the repository on REMOTE
   • git init
   • git add .
   • git commit -a -m 'initial commit'
   • git remote add origin git:remotegit
   • git push origin master