Git Shell Commands

did you know that you can push and pull to your repositories over ssh? $ git clone <user>@<host>:<path>

and voila! self hosted repositories

but that's kind of crude: interacting with such repo requires to ssh in

git shell

git ships with a super simple shell (more here)

creating a git user and dropping these command inside git-shell-commands (must live in git user's home) will allow to run them after ssh-ing: $ ssh git@<host>