The new style personal branches work by interpreting the special
sequence /USER/ (including the slashes) in a refname. Docs should be in
the next commit...
the changes to cp/scp are because without "-p" they dont carry perms
across to existing files. So if you forgot to chmod +x your custom
hook and ran easy install, then after that you have to go to the server
side to fix the perms...
I've been unwilling to create the authkeys file if it does not already
exist, because it represents a significant change in accessibility for
that account.
However, in the "distro package" scenario, one wants to make it as easy
as possible for the end-user (who is actually an admin for the gitolite
being hosted on his account, let's not forget) to use.
And it seems that in some cases that might mean he does not (yet) have a
~/.ssh even...
when repos are copied over from elsewhere, one had to run easy install
once again to make the new (OS-copied) repo contain the proper update
hook.
We eliminate this step now, using a new, empty, "hook" as a sentinel and
having "compile" check/fix all repos' hooks.
Since you have to add the repos to conf anyway, this makes it as
seamless as possible. The correct sequence now is
- (server) copy the repo at the OS level
- (admin clone) add it to conf/gitolite.conf, commit, push
Currently the pattern of expand command is line anchored. This is
different than in e.g. grep, and causes extra work to add '.*' prefix
and/or suffix in many use cases.
The new semantics now mean you might get more matches than you would
have gotten earlier. However, the expand command is still totally
undocumented, so I think it is acceptable to change the functionality.
;)
This patch removes the anchoring. So for earlier behavior the specified
pattern needs be in form of '^<pattern>$'. The default pattern is also
changed from '.*' to '^', so there might be even a small speed
improvement. =)
Signed-off-by: Teemu Matilainen <teemu.matilainen@reaktor.fi>
stupid me; committed the easy install patch on master *and* pushed,
instead of on pu...
Since I dont want to rewind master, we end up with this completely
unnecessary merge.
let expand_list be just that "expand a list", and leave checking to be
done outside.
otherwise, commit 690604d79 has the side effect of restricting refs to
$REPOPATT_PATT, and so for instance barfing on the perfectly valid
RW+ refs/(?!heads/master) = alice bob
(thanks to Teemu for catching this)
[TODO: allow a callback for a password checking function, such as
"passwd_policy_check". Question is where the function would go.
~/.gitolite.rc is the only possible place among the current set of files
but I'd rather leave that as a list of simple name=value lines for all
sorts of reasons. So maybe something like ~/.gitolite.pm (analogous to
the "gitolite.pm" in the sources I supply), which would get "require'd"
if found, and would contain all user-defined functions like this one...
needs some thinking about]
this came up in some other discussion with bremner. As usual I said no
I won't do it because I don't see any real need.
...then I realised it's just one line :)
(about this commit)
The install doc now describes both the ways of installing gitolite.
It also has a handy appendix for package maintainers describing what
they need to do.
(about the "dps" -- distro packaging support -- commit series)
This commit is the last in the chain meant to make gitolite more
friendly for package maintainers.
Frankly, I never really thought gitolite would get big enough or
important enough for someone to package it, and I always did just
the bare minimum I needed to get it working, first for myself, then
anyone who hopped onto #git and asked. As a result, it had some
quirks in terms of what is expected where and so on...
Luckily, it didn't take a lot of changes to fix it, and this series
of commits should help make it very easy to package gitolite for
system-wide use.
The old install method will now use conf/VERSION instead of src/VERSION everywhere.
The new one, if you use the builtin make file to "make branch.tar" will also create just such a file
gl-install copies
- the initial rc file to ~/.gitolite.rc if it doesn't exist
- src and hooks to GL_ADMINDIR
Make it aware of a package-based setup sequence, where the above two
change somewhat; see code diff.
This should be the last bit of change needed to prepare gitolite setup
so that a distro package maintainer does not have to fiddle too much
with code inside.
(What remains is docs, and a setup script for server-side use, to
replace the latter part of easy install)
if you have read access to the admin repo, you can say
ssh git@server info user1 [...]
Original idea and code by Karteek E. The motivation is to quickly and
easily check what perms a user has. Technically nothing that you can't
glean from the config file itself but it serves as a double check or a
mild debugging aid perhaps.
However note that the branch level rules are much more complex and they
do not, as yet, have any such "helpful" aids. Life is like that
sometimes.
Gitolite allows you to set git repo options using the "config" keyword;
see conf/example.conf for details and syntax.
However, if you are in an installation where the repo admin does not
(and should not) have shell access to the server, then allowing him to
set arbitrary repo config options *may* be a security risk -- some
config settings may allow executing arbitrary commands.
This patch fixes it, introducing a new RC variable to control the
behaviour. See conf/example.gitolite.rc for details
Although I have washed my hands off the security aspect if you use
external commands, that doesn't mean I won't make them as tight as I can
;-) Right now, this is just a place holder -- if people use it and
complain that the pattern is too restrictive, I'll change it.
The wildrepos branch has been merged into master, and deleted. It will no
longer exist as a separate branch. Instead, a new variable
called $GL_WILDREPOS has been added which acts as a switch; when
off (which is the default), many wildrepos features are disabled.
(the "C" permissions, and the getperms (etc.) commands mainly).
Important: if you are using wildrepos, please set "$GL_WILDREPOS = 1;" in
the RC file when you upgrade to this version (or just before you do the
upgrade).
Allow users to set and display description (for gitweb) for their
own wildcard repositories using ssh commands:
setdesc <repo>
getdesc <repo>
Signed-off-by: Teemu Matilainen <teemu.matilainen@reaktor.fi>
brought on by realising that you lost $shell_allowed when refactoring
(previous commit) but perl hadn't caught it because -- damn -- you
didn't have "use strict" in gitolite.pm
lots of conflicts, esp in gl-auth-command, due to refactoring the
"special commands" stuff on master
Conflicts:
doc/3-faq-tips-etc.mkd
src/gitolite.pm
src/gl-auth-command
src/gl-compile-conf
great idea by Robin Smidsrød: since users are already capable of
authenticating themselves to gitolite via ssh keys, use that to let them
set or change their own HTTP passwords (ie, run the "htpasswd" command
with the correct parameters on behalf of the "git" user on the server)
code, rc para, and documentation. In fact everything except... ahem...
testing ;-)
and while we're about it, we also reorganised the way these helper
commands (including the venerable "info" are called)
Gitolite uses projects.list to set the owners for gitweb's use.
Unfortunately, this does not work for gitweb setups that set
$projectroot to a directory, thus generating the list of
repositories on the fly.
This patch changes that: gitolite now writes the gitweb.owner
configuration variable for each repository (and properly cleans up after
itself if the owner is removed).
The patch causes gitolite not to write the owner to projects.list
anymore, as this would be redundant.
The owner also needs no longer be escaped, so this patch removes the
poor man's 's/ /+/g' escaping previously in place.
Note that I am not a Perl coder. Thus there are probably better ways to
implement this, but at least it works.
Cc: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
This is actually a pretty big deal, and I am seriously starting wonder
if calling this "gito*lite*" is justified anymore.
Anyway, in for a penny, in for a pound...
This patch implements a generic way to allow access control for external
commands, as long as they are invoked via ssh and present a server-side
command that contains enough information to make an access control
decision.
The first (and only, so far) such command implemented is rsync.
Please read the changes in this commit (at least the ones in conf/ and
doc/) carefully.
