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Gitolite Essentials

Gitolite Essentials

By : Sitaram Chamarty
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Gitolite Essentials
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Gitolite Essentials
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
Acknowledgments
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Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Getting Started with Gitolite
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Getting Started with Gitolite
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Common Access Control needs
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Access Control example with Gitolite
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Sampling of Gitolite's power features
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Gitolite and the Git control flow
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Trying out Gitolite
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Summary
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Installing Gitolite
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Installing Gitolite
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Gitolite users and the hosting user
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Preparing the server
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Getting the Gitolite source
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Installing the code
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Setting up Gitolite
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Summary
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Your Users and Gitolite
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Your Users and Gitolite
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Accessing Git repositories
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Accessing Gitolite repositories
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Getting information from Gitolite
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Gitolite commands
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Getting help for commands
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Troubleshooting SSH issues
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Summary
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Adding and Removing Users
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Adding and Removing Users
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Adding users
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Users with multiple key pairs
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Giving some users a shell
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Managing keys outside Gitolite
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Getting user group information from LDAP
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Removing users
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Summary
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Managing Repositories
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Managing Repositories
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Adding repositories
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Adding existing repositories
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Common problems and troubleshooting
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Summary
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Getting Started with Access Control
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Getting Started with Access Control
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Basic access control examples
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Lexical syntax of the conf file
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The syntax of access control rules
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Branch level access control and refexes
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Defining user and repo groups
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The include statement
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Rule accumulation and delegation
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Summary
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Advanced Access Control and Configuration
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Advanced Access Control and Configuration
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Making changes to the rc file
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Giving users their own branches
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Types of write operations
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Allowing Gitweb and Git-daemon access
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Specifying Git config values and Gitolite options
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Applying deny rules to read access
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Understanding VREFs
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Summary
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Allowing Users to Create Repos
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Allowing Users to Create Repos
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Putting repositories in Sub-directories
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Repository wildcards
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Explaining wild repos to your users
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Managing with just wild repos
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Deleting wild repositories
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Customizing Gitolite
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Customizing Gitolite
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Core and non-core Gitolite
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Types of non-core code and examples
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Writing your own non-core code
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Summary
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Understanding VREFs
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Understanding VREFs
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Migrating update hooks
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Passing arguments to the VREF code
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Using the permission field
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Default is success
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Example VREFs and their usage
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Writing your own VREF
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Mirroring
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Mirroring
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Terminology and basic concepts
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Setting up mirroring
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Local repositories and hostname substitution
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Redirecting pushes
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Manual synchronization
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Switching to a different master
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Index
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Index

Common problems and troubleshooting

You may need to modify the procedure described earlier under some circumstances. This section will describe some of the problems that you may find and how to work around them.

Ownership and permissions

Gitolite expects that all the files and directories inside $HOME/repositories are owned by the Gitolite hosting user, and that this user is allowed to write to all of them. If this condition is not met, both Git and Gitolite will be affected.

The most common reason for such a condition to be violated is that the administrator has copied some files (such as a bunch of existing repositories perhaps) as root. When files are copied as root, they are not usually given the owner and group ID of the directory in which they are being placed, but that of the original owner or the user executing the copy.

You can see this by running ls -alR on the repository in question; if the owner and group of all the files and directories are not git (the hosting user), then you will...

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