Public Access (Read-Only)

Given your-project with the project name, clone over HTTP from the URL, http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/your-project.git/.

Example:

git clone http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/libsmctrl.git/.

Using this server

Contact the current server admin (jbakita@cs as of 2023) if you need help with something not covered below.

Tutorial:

SSH to rtsrv.cs.unc.edu using your CS login and password
First choose where to put it! For long running projects, /home/litmus/ is the recommended location, but you can also use your home directory if it is a temporary repository.
Now choose a project name! Then create a directory in your desired storage location named your-project-name.git.
Change into your new directory and initialize it as a git repository with the command git init --bare.
You can now clone your repository with git clone your_cs_username@rtsrv.unc.edu:/full/path/to/your-project.git - but we can make this easier.
To shorten the clone command and enable the web interface, link your repository to /public/ with ln -s /path/to/your-project.git /public/.
As soon as the cgit cache updates (may take several minutes), you can now see your project listed in the web interface!
You may notice that your project has no description shown online in cgit. To fix this, add a one-line description to /public/your-project.git/description.
Done!

Quick reference:

git clone your_cs_username@rtsrv.cs.unc.edu:/public/your-project.git

Replace rtsrv.cs.unc.edu with rtsrv-eth.telenet.unc.edu for off-campus access via SSH.

If you are migrating a repository in the default configuration from GitHub:

git remote set-url origin your_cs_username@rtsrv.cs.unc.edu:/public/your-project.git
git push --all origin

This file is /home/litmus/README.md on rtsrv.cs.unc.edu, rendered to HTML by cgit.