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Sitaram Chamarty faf1629fd8 better anchors in docs: changed autotoc and ran it through all docs 2010-06-01 06:16:13 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 196b41e0fd *major* doc revamp
people will NOT read documentation, especially the bloody install
documentation.  I'm about ready to throw in the towel and declare
gitolite unsupported, take-it-or-leave-it.

But I'm making one last attempt to refocus the install doc to better
suit the "I know I'm very smart and I dont have to read docs so it's
clearly your fault that I am not able to install gitolite" crowd.

As a bonus, though, I ended up making proper, hyper-linked, TOCs for
most of the docs, and moved a whole bunch of stuff around.  Also finally
got some of the ssh stuff over from my git-notes repo because it really
belongs here.
2010-05-21 21:36:58 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6c682721b5 (minor) doc updates 2010-04-29 19:25:40 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty c4cbfabd4c spelling cluestick...
Ouch!  How mortifying :)  I'd always thought this was one of the Brit/US
differences, but to find out that it really *isn't* a word... hmph!

Anyway, in the interest of not breaking existing wild repos, the
ownership file is still called "gl-creater".  Everything else has been
changed.

(...thanks to Sverre)
2010-04-29 19:25:39 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 9df775413c document the change in a982446
(thanks to Eli for catching this!)
2010-04-13 23:17:04 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6a44c564a2 doc/4: added "how it actually works" section
thanks to Ilari for helping fix a bug (see previous commit) and then
prompting this documentation
2010-03-28 12:30:43 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 7bfb3676b7 @all for repos is now much cleaner; a true @all...
- no need to put it at the end of the config file now, yeaaay!
  - @all for @all is meaningless and not supported.  People asking will
    be told to get a life or use git-daemon.
  - NAME/ limits for @all repos is ignored for efficiency reasons.
2010-03-26 21:36:05 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty b3c5d14421 relent a little and document the expand command a tiny bit :) 2010-03-20 09:59:07 +05:30
Eli Barzilay 9f805646fe minor typos 2010-02-27 12:32:28 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 388f4d873d (IMPORTANT; read this in full) no more "wildrepos"
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).
2010-02-07 13:22:43 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 5ad2056a9c typo fix in doc/4; thanks Teemu! 2010-01-08 06:20:19 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 714e214258 wildrepos: catch-all disclaimer for missing features ;-) 2009-12-20 11:57:53 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 135079c9d7 minor docfix 2009-12-06 20:40:23 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 02cee1d5cf wildrepos: expanded access reporting
This feature has *no* warranty, and so no documentation.  Not more than
this transcript anyway.

config file:

    @prof = u1
    @TAs = u2 u3
    @students = u4 u5 u6

    repo    assignments/CREATER/a[0-9][0-9]
        C   =   @students
        RW+ =   CREATER
        RW  =   WRITERS @TAs
        R   =   READERS @prof

session:

as user "u4":
    # check your permissions
    $ ssh git@server
    PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
    hello u4, the gitolite version here is v0.95-31-gbcb14ca
    you have the following permissions:
     C      assignments/CREATER/a[0-9][0-9]
       @ @  testing
    Connection to localhost closed.

    # autovivify repos for assignment 12 and 24
    $ git clone git@server:assignments/u4/a12 a12
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sitaram/t/a12/.git/
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/gitolite/repositories/assignments/u4/a12.git/
    warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
    $ git clone git@server:assignments/u4/a24 a24
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sitaram/t/a24/.git/
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/gitolite/repositories/assignments/u4/a24.git/
    warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.

    # check what repos you autovivified
    $ ssh git@server expand assignments/u4/a[0-9][0-9]
    (u4)    assignments/u4/a12
    (u4)    assignments/u4/a24

as user "u5":
    # check your basic permissions
    $ ssh git@server
    PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
    hello u5, the gitolite version here is v0.95-31-gbcb14ca
    you have the following permissions:
     C      assignments/CREATER/a[0-9][0-9]
       @ @  testing
    Connection to localhost closed.

    # see if you have access to any of u4's repos
    $ ssh git@server expand assignments/u4/a[0-9][0-9]
    # (no output produced)

as user "u4":
    # allow "u5" read access to assignment 12
    # note you type in "R u5", hit enter, then hit Ctrl-D.  Gitolite
    # then produces a confirmation message starting "New perms are:"
    $ ssh git@server setperms assignments/u4/a12
    R u5
    New perms are:
    R u5

as user "u5":
    # again see if you have access to any u4 repos
    $ ssh git@server expand assignments/u4/a[0-9][0-9]
    (u4)    assignments/u4/a12

as user "u4":
    # check what permissions you gave to assignment 12
    $ ssh git@server getperms assignments/u4/a12
    R u5

    # add RW access to "u6" to assignment 12
    # again, type 'em in, then hit Ctrl-D; and note each time you run
    # this you're starting from scratch -- you can't "add to" the
    # permissions.  Deal with it...
    $ ssh git@server setperms assignments/u4/a12
    R u5
    RW u6
    New perms are:
    R u5
    RW u6

as user "u6":
    # check what u4 stuff you have access to
    $ ssh git@server expand assignments/u4/a[0-9][0-9]
    (u4)    assignments/u4/a12
2009-12-06 20:36:16 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6214ad3ab6 wildrepos: first cut documentation 2009-12-06 20:36:12 +05:30