Automating Git repository setup with Capistrano
December 8th, 2008 Posted in ProgrammingSetting up a remote repository for Git is really easy, but who wants to type things unnecessarily? Tonight I knocked up a task for Capistrano which gitify’s your current directory then creates a remote git repository and pushes to it.
It’s based on a bit of code by Geoffrey Grosenbach but modified for my needs. I have a VPS which is where I want to host my repositories — this should also work if you’re running on a shared host like Dreamhost where you have ssh access, though I haven’t tested it.
Simply cut and paste the following code into ~/.caprc then you can run:
cap git:setup scm=t
If it’s a Rails app then you can also do
cap git:setup scm=t railsapp=t
which will add .gitignore files to exclude the basics like log and temp files, .DS_Store, *.sqlite3 and the api docs
