Create an empty repo

Create an empty repo off of /home/username where username is your user name.
The following will create an empty repo named “myrepo” in the subdirectory /home/username/myrepo.git

cd ~
git init --bare myrepo.git

Adding content

Go to where the source code are and initialize a git repository. Then add the files and configure as necessary:

git init
git add ...
git commit ...

Configure a remote repository to map to the repo created earlier in order to push contents to:

git remote add dreamhost ssh://username@server.dreamhost.com/home/username/myrepo.git

The above sets up a remote repo called “dreamhost” that tracks the repo created above. The URL component ssh://username@server.dreamhost.com indicates how to access the server where the repo is. The user name and server names can be found by following the docs from Dreamhost:

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000675027-FTP-overview-and-credentials#Finding_your_FTP_server_hostname

Finally, push the change up:

git push -u dreamhost master

Pulling content

Most likely on a different machine, use git clone to pull content and start tracking changes:

git clone ssh://username@server.dreamhost.com/home/username/myrepo.git
Cloning into 'myrepo'...
username@server.dreamhost.com's password: xxxxxxxxx
remote: Counting objects: xx, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10/10), done.
remote: Total xx (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (xx/xx), 3.28 KiB | 3.28 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), done.

The URL component ssh://username@server.dreamhost.com indicates how to access the server where the repo is as is the case before. The path /home/username/myrepo.git is the path to the remote repo that you create in the first step above.

Now you can use git add, git commit, and git push to add content:

git add ...
...
git commit
...
git push origin master

Or, for a specific branch (mybranch in this example):

git checkout -b mybranch
git add ...
...
git commit
...
git push origin mybranch