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# when gitolite is overkill
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Note: I wrote this to help people for whom gitolite is genuinely overkill. I
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believe it will all work, but YMMV.
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----
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You don't always need something like gitolite. If you have a fixed (or very
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rarely changing) number of users, and all of them have full access to all your
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repos, you can use plain Unix permissions to get a lot of this done:
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* dedicate a userid (say "git") to host all your repos. This user will also
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have a group (normally called "git" on most distros I think)
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* create a directory that is accessible (at least "r" and "x" permissions)
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to the group "git", all the way upto the root. (That is, if the directory
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you chose is /home/git/repos, then /, /home, /home/git, and
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/home/git/repos must all be "g+rx").
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* create all repos in this directory, as the "git" user, using the following
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command:
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git init --bare --shared reponame.git
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* For each user who needs access to the repos, add them as members to the
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"git" group also. On Mandriva this is:
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usermod -G git username
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Don't forget that `-G` *replaces* the list of supplementary groups for the
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user, so be sure to first check if he is already member of some groups and
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keep those in the command (comma-separated).
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And that's basically it. The "init --shared" will create the repos with
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"chmod -R g+s". If you have existing repos where you forgot (or didn't know)
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the "--shared" argument, do this on each of them:
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cd reponame.git
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git init --shared --bare
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chmod -R g+w .
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chmod g+s `find . -type d`
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I think that should do it.
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----
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You can do more complex things using Unix acls. If you do, and feel like
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writing it up, send it to me and I will add it here (with credit given of
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course). Personally, I can't be bothered -- once you have differing needs for
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different people, you really need gitolite anyway, because you probably need
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different rights for branches as well and Unix ACLs can't do that.
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