How to store your site in Git?

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This page will show you how to store your site as combo site in a remote Git repository.

Steps

Create a remote Git Repository

We will be using GitHub as example, but you can use any Git Repository Provider such as Gogs, GitLab or Gitea.

For GitHub, follow this article to create your new repository.

Create a local Git Repository

In the directory that was used with the docker command, initialize a Git repository

cd /tmp/site-combo-starter
# Init (ie create ) a local repo
git init

• Rename the master branch to main

git branch -M main

Add the Git remote

• Add the URL of your repository as origin

git remote add origin https://github.com/ComboStrap/site-starter.git

Check the untracked files

git status

On branch main

No commits yet

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
       .gitattributes
       .gitignore
       README.md
       conf/
       data/
       docs/
       lib/
       robots.txt

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

Add the combo site files

Add them all

git add .

Create your first commit

• Create a commit

git commit -m "First commit"

Push them to your remote repository

• Push

git push -u origin main
# enter your credentials 
# or use SSH Keys (https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh)

Enumerating objects: 45, done.
Counting objects: 100% (45/45), done.
Delta compression using up to 16 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (36/36), done.
Writing objects: 100% (45/45), 50.71 KiB | 10.14 MiB/s, done.
Total 45 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), done.
To github.com:ComboStrap/site-starter.git
 * [new branch]      main -> main
branch 'main' set up to track 'origin/main'.

Next

You can now develop, change your wiki and push your change to your Git Repository.

Then you can:

• Check the UI Components
• Learn about Routing and redirections
• Have a look at the SEO page

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