Git/Setting up a Server

A Git server is not supposed to host any uncommitted file, so its repositories should be initialized with "bare":

git init --bare /repositories/repo1

Now its files are encrypted and can't be read as flat files from the server.

The distributed repositories can then be initialized with git clone, updated with git pull, and submitted to the server with git push.

To avoid any user to erase the server branches when pushing, the branches can be locked, forcing the users to create some pull requests with their changes to validate before merging.