I've started using git maybe one month ago, and I'd like to use it for many things including some one-man projects, browser settings backups, and such things. So I always do a local git init, ssh to my server and create a repo there. I copy the .git/config from a working project, and change the remote URL. It all works, but it's not perfect. - Is it not possible to create a remote repository from my own computer without ssh? - There's only version 1.5.4.3 on the server and I don't want to update it unless strongly recommended so. Should I? - Because of the low version, I can't use "git init --bare" on the server. So I create an usual depository and change the configuration to bare=true. Is it OK (I really don't mind the repo being placed in DIR/.git instead of DIR itself.)? - The very first time I need to do "git push origin master", later "git push" suffices. I wonder why. - My local repository created by "git init" (version 1.7.2.3 under cygwin) contains [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true ignorecase = true but I'd prefer to specify there as little as possible, since the settings for all my repositories should be the same (at least for the moment). What can be safely removed? - Sometimes, I use "git push --force", how do I clean up the resulting garbage on the server? - How can I ensure that everything important gets pushed to the server? Maybe by using "git push --mirror"? Obviously and logically, .git/config doesn't get pushed, but maybe I miss something more important, too? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html