Use the "--shared" switch if users will commit the repository from the machine. For details see [1]. I think this makes step 5 unneccesary. If your ssh daemon l

Use the "--shared" switch if users will commit the repository from the machine. For details see [1]. I think this makes step 5 unneccesary. If your ssh daemon listens on other port than 22, you can still use relative URL-s to your repo owner home directory like this [2]: ssh://user@host:port:/~/repository.git [1]: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-... [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14349254/720077 http://stackoverflow.com/a/14349254/720077