yGit is a Rails app for hosting and managing private git repos.

1. Backup the authorized_keys file on the server.

   ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

2. Copy the application.example.yml to application.yml and make configuration changes as necessary.

   ... production: app_title: "yGit" repo_path: "~/repos" # path to the repo folder on the same server repo_host: "user@git.example.com:repos" # the root path git will use to access repos authorized_keys_path: "/home/user_name/.ssh" # location of the ssh folder basic_auth_user: "user" basic_auth_password: "password1" admin_email: "me@example.com"

3. Deploy the application.

4. Using the application add one or more public ssh keys.

5. Create a new repo.

6. Clone the repo using git.