Getting started with Git and Stash

Add users to Stash and grant permissions

The first thing you can do in Stash is to add collaborators.

Go to the Users listing in the Administration area.

Click Create User to go directly to the user creation form.

Once you've created a user, click Change permissions to set up their access permissions.

There are 4 levels of user permissions:

• System Administrator — can access all the configuration settings of the Stash instance.
• Administrator — same as System Admins, but they can't modify file paths or the Stash server settings.
• Project Creator — can create, modify and delete projects.
• Stash User — active users who can access Stash.

See External user directories if you have existing user identities you wish to use with Stash.

Create your first project and share it with collaborators

Creating your project

The next thing you do in Stash is to create a project. You'll add repositories to this project later.

Simply click Create Project in the Projects page.

Complete the form and submit it to create your new project.

Opening up project access to others

If you are a project administrator, you can grant project permissions to other collaborators.

Click the Permissions tab for the project.

On that page you can add users and groups to a project you've already created.

There are 3 levels of project access:

• Project Administrator — can create, edit and delete repositories and projects, and configure permissions for projects.
• Contributor — can push to and pull from all the repositories in the project.
• Observer — can only browse code and comments in, and pull from, the repositories in the project.

Create a repository and get your code into Stash

Create a repository

If you are a project administrator, you can create repositories in the project.

Once a repository is created, the project permissions are applied to the repository. That means all repositories created in a project share the same access and permission settings.

Click Create Repository to open the repository creation form.

Once submitted you will be taken directly to your repository homepage. As there is no content in your repository yet, you'll see some instructions to help you push code to your repository.

A simple clone and push

Here you will simply clone the repository you just created and then push a commit back to it. You can see the clone URL to use at the top right of the screen. SSH access may be available.

In a terminal, run the following command (replace <stashURL> with the URL for your instance of Stash):

git clone <stashURL>/git/<projectname>/<reponame>.git

Use your Stash username and password.

The result in your terminal should be similar to what you can see in the screenshot below.

You should now have a new empty directory tracked by Git, in the user space of your local machine. Let's add some content and push it back to Stash.

In your <reponame> directory, create a text file named helloworld.txt and write "Hello World" in it.

Now run the following command in your terminal

cd <reponame>
git add .
git commit -m "My first commit"
git push origin master

If everything went fine, when you refresh the Stash screen, you will see that the homepage of your repository has been replaced with a file browser showing you a link to helloworld.txt.

There you go, you're ready to get coding with your collaborators.

For more information about getting your code into Stash, see Importing code from an existing project.

Check out our Git tutorials and training for more information, and have a look at this list of basic Git commands that you will probably use often.