I seem to be doing this more frequently whenever hacking on a new project. It’s easy to set up a master repo on a remote server that you have ssh access to, I just always forget the commands. Here they are for reference:

Create a new local repo:

mkdir myproject
cd myproject
git init touch README
git add .
git commit -m"first checkin"
cd .. 

Create a bare tree

git clone --bare myproject myproject.git
touch myproject.git/git-daemon-export-ok 

Upload to remote machine (in this case a “/src” folder already on the server)

scp -r myproject.git server.domain.com:/src/ 

Check back out from remote repo

rm -rf myproject
git clone server.domain.com:/src/myproject.git 

You should be all set. Your “master” is now on your remote server. You can branch, push, pull, etc the same as you would on github or similar.