I also came to chime in with this. I have been running a "personal git server" this way for almost a decade. On the server: cd ~ mkdir directoryname.g

I also came to chime in with this. I have been running a "personal git server" this way for almost a decade. On the server: cd ~ mkdir directoryname.git cd directoryname.git git init --bare On the client(s): git clone username@server:directoryname.git That's all there is to it!