Casper Fabricius’ Keeping git repositories on Dreamhost using SSH has some instructions and a handy script for automating the process. Thing is, I tend to create the folders and files for a project before I set up the git repository. Casper’s script assumes you want to create the folder and repository at the same time.

So here’s my version of the script. If you call it without arguments, it assumes you want to make a repository for the current directory.

Note: both Casper’s and my scripts still work if you call them with a directory that exists, e.g. dreamgit dir_that_exists. You’ll see mkdir spout an error, but the rest will execute.