From eb72c5fc46b460aefcdb955d78343a99f9d8139b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marty Sluijtman <marty.wanderer@disroot.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:04:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Little bit of polish

---
 content/rambles/git-server.md | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content/rambles/git-server.md b/content/rambles/git-server.md
index b7daebe..467b1ed 100644
--- a/content/rambles/git-server.md
+++ b/content/rambles/git-server.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: 'Hosting your own Git "server"'
 date: "2022-09-30T14:27:31+02:00"
 author: "$HUMANOID"
 tags: ["git", "ssh"]
-description: "The basis of a Git server is a machine accessible in a way that git understands with a bunch of bare git repositories"
+description: "The basis of a Git server is a machine accessible in a way that Git understands with a bunch of bare repositories"
 toc: true
 ---
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/<git-key>
 ```
 I also recommend creating an entry in `~/.ssh/config` for your Git server:
 ```ssh_config
-Host <host>
+Host <host>-git
 	Hostname <hostname>
 	User git
 	Identityfile ~/.ssh/<git-key>
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ Host <host>
 
 ### Server side
 Next step is to make the `git` account accessible over SSH.
-To do this, log in as the `git` user and create a `.ssh` directory with an `authorized_keys` file with the public half of the `<git-key>` keypair:
+`ssh-copy-id` won't work because the `git` user doesn't have a password.
+So instead, log in as the `git` user and create a `.ssh` directory with an `authorized_keys` file with the public half of the `<git-key>` keypair:
 ```sh
 sudo su - git
 umask 077 # strict read write permissions
@@ -83,13 +84,13 @@ That's it.
 
 You now have a Git "server" with a repo named `<repo-name>`.
 
-To add something to this repo, on your client machine create a new repository and add `<host>:/srv/git/<repo-name>.git` as remote and push your project to it.
+To add something to this repo, on your client machine create a new repository and add `<host>-git:/srv/git/<repo-name>.git` as remote and push your project to it.
 Common practice dictates that this remote be called `origin`:
 ```sh
 mkdir my-fancy-project
 cd my-fancy-project
 git init
-git remote add origin <host>:/srv/git/<repo-name>.git
+git remote add origin <host>-git:/srv/git/<repo-name>.git
 echo "# Self-hosted repo!" > README.md
 git add -A
 git commit -m "Initial commit"
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ git push -u origin main # assuming you use main as your default branch name
 
 To clone this repository on another machine, add the `<git-key>` SSH keypair and related configuration section in `~/.ssh/config` so said machine and run:
 ```sh
-git clone <host>:/srv/git/<repo-name>.git
+git clone <host>-git:/srv/git/<repo-name>.git
 ```
 
 # Automation