create a git repository on a ssh host

initRemoteGit.sh

#!/bin/sh

GITHOST="myGit" # remote server name (for ssh)
REMOTE="myGit" # remote name in git config

GITFOLDER="git"
MYUSERNAME=$USER # assume we want to take current user account, change this at will

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    FOLDERNAME=$( basename $(pwd))
else
    FOLDERNAME=$1
fi

REPO="/home/$MYUSERNAME/$GITFOLDER/$FOLDERNAME.git"

echo -n "Creating $GITHOST:$REPO (y/n)?"
read answer


if [ "$answer" != "${answer#[Yy]}" ]; then
    if ! ssh $GITHOST "[ -d $REPO ]"; then
	ssh $GITHOST "mkdir -p $REPO"
	ssh $GITHOST "git init --bare $REPO"
	git remote add $REMOTE $GITHOST:$REPO
    else
	echo "[ERROR] there is already a repository" 
    fi

else
    echo "Aborting..."
fi

echo "Make $REMOTE default push remote:"
echo ""
echo "git push --set-upstream $REMOTE master"