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# assorted faqs, tips, and notes on gitolite
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### errors, warnings, notes...
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* cloning an empty repo is only possible with clients greater than 1.6.2.
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So at least one of your clients needs to have a recent git. Once at least
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one commit has been made, older clients can also use it.
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* when you clone an empty repo, git seems to complain about the remote
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hanging up or something. I have no idea what that is, but it doesn't seem
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to hurt anything. This happens even in normal git, not just gitolite.
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* once in a while, if you're feeling particularly BOFH-ish, take a look at
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`$GL_ADMINDIR/log` :-)
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### special cases
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#### one user, many keys
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Sometimes the same user needs to access the server from differnt machines
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(like a desktop and a laptop, for instance). Gitolite needs to be given all
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these public keys, but associate *all* of them with the same user.
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Recall from the "admin" document that each "user" has one public key file
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called "user.pub", which seems to imply a one-to-one match.
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But this is not strictly true -- gitolite allows a *filename* to have a small
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"location" piece attached to it. So you can have "sitaram@laptop.pub" and
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"sitaram@desktop.pub", for instance, and they'll all be treated as keys for
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"sitaram". Just add both the files to "keydir/", and use the username
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"sitaram" (*without* the "@location" part) in your `gitolite.conf` file.
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Advantages: if a user reports *one of his keys* is lost or needs replacing,
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it's easy to remove or replace just that.
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(Contrast with gitosis, which keeps multiple entries in the same "user.pub"
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file. Deleting or changing one of the keys involves editing the file and
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figuring out which key is the right one!)
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