Installing GIT on Linux Redhat or CentOS 5

First is first:

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
yum install git

Next steps, configure git configuraiton:

git config --global user.name "Basil Abbas"
git config --global user.email "basil@isu.net.sa"
git config --global color.ui auto

Creating a bare repository on a remote server:

mkdir project_directory
cd project_directory
git init --bare

Cloning the bare remote repository on a development machine:

cd /home/babbas
git clone ssh://hostname/path/to/project_directory