I'm having difficulty accessing git on my Linode (Ubuntu). I followed the very good howto in the library, but that has problems, so I tried back-to-basics, but that has problems too, as follows:

On the Linode I do:
(su) apt-get install git-core
mkdir myrepo.git
git init --bare

On my local machine, I do:
cd <dir which will be the local repo>
git init
git add <myfile>
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin ssh://myuser@mylinode.com/myrepo.git
git push origin master

I get the message:
fatal: 'myuser@mylinode.com/myrepo.git' does not appear to be a git repository

All the howtos I've read on the web say this should work, but it doesn't. Can anyone give me any clues as to why?

You don't want to init the repo locally, you probably want to clone it. Second, unless your repo is stored in /myrepo.git on your linode, you probably want to specify the full path.

Server:
$ cd ~
$ mkdir myrepo.git
$ cd myrepo.git
$ git init --bare

Client:
$ git clone ssh://user@host/home/USERNAME/myrepo.git
$ git add file.c
$ git commit -m "commitlog"
$ git push

Hey - thanks for this. That got it working. I've also applied it to the Linode howto, and that's working now too. All I have to do now is learn git