• Create two files in a remote folder to simulate the wiki install on the server.
• Change their permissions and ownership to match what's on the server:

  ptruchon@ThinkPad-T440:~/gittest/remote$ ls -l
  total 24
  -rwxrwx--- 1 ptruchon www-data 26 Dec 26 10:20 file1.txt
  -rwxrwx--- 1 ptruchon www-data 26 Dec 26 10:20 file2.txt

• Initialize git:<code bash>

git init git add . git commit -m 'initial commit on remote' git log commit 0e5ccdedd1c9188996aadad3a8e2be5a319ab789 (HEAD → master) Author: Patrick Truchon patoo@rbox.me Date: Sun Dec 26 10:21:24 2021 -0800

  initial commit on remote