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Sitaram Chamarty 2456cc17c8 personal branches: de-emphasise old-style, document new-style
There are some disadvantages to the old-style personal branch scheme.
It only allows one specific pattern (of refname) to be used, forces that
pattern to be applicable to *all* repos in the entire config, and
requires editing the rc file (on the server) to be edited to achieve
this.

In other words, it's a very blunt instrument...

The new style depends on using lines like this within a specific repo
config:

        RW+ personal/USER/      =   @userlist

The important thing is that the "branch" name should contain `/USER/`
(including the slashes).  Access is still determined by the right hand
side of course.

This gives you the following advantages:

  - allow it only for repos that need it
  - allow different patterns to be used for different repos
  - allow *multiple* patterns; just add more than one such line
  - allow the pattern to have suffixes (eg: foo/USER/bar)
2010-03-16 18:27:26 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ed5c78349e update hook now allows chaining to "update.secondary"
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...
2010-03-14 22:48:25 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty bf7aba7e0b changelog 2010-03-12 17:20:12 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty d660822ab5 dps: made dps section clearer and more step-by-step 2010-03-12 10:24:53 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty b3945d44c9 docs and .gitattributes hadn't been updated for the change in hooks dir 2010-03-10 06:24:53 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty de0ecd0431 compile: make it easier to move repos into gitolite
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
2010-03-07 19:05:56 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 8031f72fa8 progit article added to doc/ 2010-02-27 17:28:06 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 572a34740f doc/0: emphasise the importance of ssh 2010-02-27 12:46:17 +05:30
Eli Barzilay 9f805646fe minor typos 2010-02-27 12:32:28 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ea123bbfb4 Merge branch 'dps' into master
Conflicts:
	doc/0-INSTALL.mkd
2010-02-25 20:28:02 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 802f925f1d doc/CHANGELOG added 2010-02-25 20:13:51 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 087aa274c6 doc/0: added uninstall instructions 2010-02-16 07:03:54 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 8d382a6d25 doc/6 now has anchors 2010-02-16 05:02:14 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6f740339e4 doc/3 last reorg missed moving some anchors and preamble text 2010-02-16 04:57:14 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 998ff2d13b doc/1 minor fix
thanks to bremner for catching this...
2010-02-13 19:53:50 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty e674a7c64a (package maintainers read this) install doc updated
(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.
2010-02-13 13:02:25 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 7e34a39050 doc/3 reorg; one section was getting too long! 2010-02-11 09:04:07 +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 c43560d2ef Merge branch 'master' into wildrepos
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
2010-02-04 14:42:10 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 67c10a34fe auth: new subcommand "htpasswd"
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)
2010-02-04 11:55:24 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 09195afd44 document deny rules a bit better 2010-02-01 15:59:03 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 98a4c79dce (read this in full) access control for non-git commands running over ssh
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.
2010-02-01 11:49:21 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 29260476fb Merge branch 'master' into pu-wildrepos 2010-02-01 10:48:17 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 90fed77927 Merge remote branch 'origin/pu' 2010-02-01 10:44:48 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty b4a65ab73c doc/3: couple of clarifications
- deny rules only apply to "W" ops
  - be more specific about what allows "R" to pass
2010-01-30 08:35:43 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 76f8615a92 Merge branch 'pu' into pu-wildrepos 2010-01-29 09:12:24 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 7afaafc54a document the "include" mechanism 2010-01-27 16:48:56 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty c3ec349721 sshkeys-lint: new program
run without arguments for usage
2010-01-25 13:17:14 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 11e8ab048a doc/6 revamp: minor addition 2010-01-25 09:53:13 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty e68d76f127 doc/6 revamp; would appreciate reviews ;-) 2010-01-22 20:28:35 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty c1de05a8a5 doc/3: gitweb integ; trailing slash on $projectroot
It's not clear whether $projectroot has or does not have a trailing
slash.  Current code assumes it does, but we need to cater for it not
having one also.  Otherwise the final reponame ends up with a leading
slash, once $projectroot has been stripped from the beginning of the
full repo path.
2010-01-22 06:15:34 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty e7962e5eda delegation doc: minor oops
I know hardly anyone is using delegation, but if you find yourself
locked out from pushing because of this one little thing, do this:

  * on your gitolite-admin clone, add the required lines per this patch,
    and commit

  * on the server, edit ~/.gitolite/conf/gitolite.conf-compiled.pm, and
    delete the following line

        'NAME_LIMITS' => 1

    from the entry for "gitolite-admin" (if you don't know what that
    means delete *all* such lines) and save the file

  * back on your admin repo clone, do a push
2010-01-15 10:19:33 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty d61890301f delegation doc: minor oops
I know hardly anyone is using delegation, but if you find yourself
locked out from pushing because of this one little thing, do this:

  * on your gitolite-admin clone, add the required lines per this patch,
    and commit

  * on the server, edit ~/.gitolite/conf/gitolite.conf-compiled.pm, and
    delete the following line

        'NAME_LIMITS' => 1

    from the entry for "gitolite-admin" (if you don't know what that
    means delete *all* such lines) and save the file

  * back on your admin repo clone, do a push
2010-01-15 10:18:33 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty bede47e2db Merge branch 'master' into wildrepos
Conflicts:
	src/hooks/update
2010-01-14 20:47:04 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ecfd20e793 @SHELL is now $SHELL_USERS in the rc file (warning: backward compat breakage)
Stop conflating the privilege to push changes to the admin repo with the
privilege to get a shell on the server.

Please read doc/6 carefully before upgrading to this version.  Also
please ensure that the gitolite key is *not* your only means to get a
command line on the server
2010-01-14 19:35:46 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 839027f7a7 change delegation to NAME/ style (warning: backward compat breakage)
This is a backward incompatible change.  If you are using delegation and
you upgrade to this version, please do the following:

  * change your gitolite.conf file to use the new syntax (see
    doc/5-delegation.mkd in this commit)

  * for each branch "foo" in the gitolite-admin repo, do this:

        # (on "master" branch)
        git checkout foo -- conf/fragments/foo.conf

  * git add all those new fragments and commit to master

  * delete all the branches on your clone and the server

        # again, for each branch foo
        git branch -D foo
        git push origin :foo
2010-01-10 09:50:08 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 7124faa9f3 NAME-based restrictions
Gitolite allows you to restrict changes by file/dir name.  The syntax
for this used "PATH/" as a prefix to denote such file/dir patterns.
This has now been changed to "NAME/" because PATH is potentially
confusing.

While this is technically a backward-incompatible change, the feature
itself was hitherto undocumented, and only a few people were using it,
so I guess it's not that bad...

Also added documentation now.
2010-01-09 20:30:53 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 5ad2056a9c typo fix in doc/4; thanks Teemu! 2010-01-08 06:20:19 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty d03152316f install transcript 2009-12-25 01:05:21 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 1a80f0182d Merge branch 'master' into wildrepos 2009-12-23 20:00:56 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty b0ce84d47f document @SHELL feature, allow "info" for all,
...but still distinguish shell folks with a small extra line telling
them they have shell access
2009-12-23 19:57:36 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 203d5690be Merge branch '@all-for-repos' into wildrepos
Conflicts:
	src/gl-compile-conf
2009-12-21 23:02:02 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ba3cbd7ecf doc/3, conf: document @all for repos
plus some refactoring of doc/3
2009-12-21 22:58:47 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6f45f75ca1 minor docfix 2009-12-21 06:23:25 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 714e214258 wildrepos: catch-all disclaimer for missing features ;-) 2009-12-20 11:57:53 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty d49bb6b423 Merge branch 'master' into wildrepos
Conflicts:
	src/gitolite.pm
	src/gl-auth-command
2009-12-20 06:58:33 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ed2bf526f8 minor docfix 2009-12-13 19:17:18 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ff28acb059 Merge branch 'master' into wildrepos
master brought in:

  - full email addresses as usernames
  - repo-specific git config

Conflicts:
	doc/3-faq-tips-etc.mkd
	src/gitolite.pm
	src/gl-compile-conf
2009-12-11 11:23:26 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 780b4cca20 ssh-copy-id workaround detail plus a couple other doc fixes 2009-12-10 17:07:46 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 64979c18ea document repo config support 2009-12-09 12:16:22 +05:30