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# "push to admin" in gitolite
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Gitosis's default mode of admin is by cloning and pushing the `gitosis-admin`
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repo. I call this "push to admin". It's a very cool/cute feature, and I
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loved it at first.
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But it's a ***support nightmare***. Half the gitosis angst on `#git` is
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because of this feature. Gitolite does not use or endorse this method for
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people new to git, or ssh or (worse) both.
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However, ***if*** you know git and ssh really, *really*, well and you know
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what you're doing, this is a pretty nice thing to have -- does make life
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easier, I admit.
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So, here is how to make PTA (hey nice acronym, just missing an "I") work on
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gitolite as well. But remember, there is NO SUPPORT! Go away. Leave me
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alone... Anything else on gitolite I will help but not this, ok? :-)
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The instructions are presented as shell commands; they should be fairly
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obvious. All paths are from the default `~/.gitolite.rc`; if you changed any,
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make the same changes below.
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First, on the server, log on to the `git` userid, add a new repo called
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`gitolite-admin` to the config file, give yourself `RW` or `RW+` rights to it,
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and "compile":
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cd ~/.gitolite
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vim conf/gitolite.conf # add gitolite-admin repo, etc
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src/gl-compile-conf
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Now, if you look at the "compile" script, it has an *automatic* local commit
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inside, just for safety, which kicks in every time you compile. This only
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works if it finds a ".git" directory, and it was designed as an "automatic
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backup/safety net" type of thing, in case I accidentally deleted the whole
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config file or something.
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We need to disable this, because now we have a *better* repo, one that is
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manually pushed, and presumably has proper commit messages!
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mv .git .disable.git # yeah it's a hack, sue me
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Now the compile command created an empty, bare, "gitolite-admin" repo, so we
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seed it with the current contents of the config and keys. (A note on the
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`GIT_WORK_TREE` variable: I avoid setting these variables in the normal way
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because I always forget to unset them later, and then when I `cd` to other
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repos they play havoc with my git commands, so this is how I do it)
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cd ~/repositories/gitolite-admin.git
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GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/git/.gitolite git add conf/gitolite.conf keydir
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GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/git/.gitolite git commit -am start
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Now we have to setup the post-update hook for push-to-admin to work. The
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hook should (1) make a forced checkout in the "live" config directory (which
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is `~/.gitolite`), and (2) run the compile script. So we create a hook with
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the appropriate code in it, and then make it executable
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cat <<EOFPU > hooks/post-update
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#!/bin/sh
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GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/git/.gitolite git checkout -f
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cd /home/git/.gitolite
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src/gl-compile-conf
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EOFPU
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chmod +x hooks/post-update
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----
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Now get to your workstation, and
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git clone git@server:gitolite-admin.git
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That's it, we're done. You're in gitosis land as far as this is concerned
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now. So knock yourself out. Or lock yourself out... :-)
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