Packaging gitolite for debian requires the rc file to be in /etc/gitolite.
But non-root installs must still be supported, and they need it in $HOME.
This means the rc file is no longer in a fixed place, which needs code to find
the rc file first. See comments inside new file 'gitolite.pm' for details.
The rest of the changes are in the other programs, to replace the hard-coded
rc filename with a call to this new code.
- README: add a "what" section first, plus a few minor fixes
- doc/5:
- remove reference to obsolete ml branch URL; point it to the right
place with the right section name
- change text to reflect the fact that p-t-a is now the default!
- example config file is now all comments (should have been that way anyway)
- we detect if it is an upgrade and act accordingly (see below)
IMPORTANT: we assume that $admin_name remains the same in an upgrade -- that's
how we detect it is an upgrade! Change that name or his pubkey, and you're
toast!
- added comments to easy install to help do it manually
- README: some stuff moved to tips doc, brief summary of extras
(over gitosis) added
- INSTALL: major revamp, easy install and manual install,
much shorter and much more readable!
plus other docs changed as needed, and updated the tips doc to roll in
some details from "update.mkd" in the "ml" branch
- add better comments on the 2 main hashes
- work around an inefficiency caused by the exclude prep code needing
a list instead of a hash at a certain place
[Note: this is a fairly involved commit, compared to most of the others.
See doc/5-delegation.mkd for a user-level feature description.]
parse delegated config fragments (found as conf/fragments/*.conf). Any
repos being referenced within a fragment config *must* belong to the
"@group" with the same name as the fragment.
That is, a fragment called conf/fragments/abc.conf can only refer to repos
that are members of the "@abc" repo group. It cannot specify access
control for any other repos. If it does, those settings are ignored, and
a warning message is produced.
since the delegated config must have the flexibility of (re-)defining
group names for internal convenience, and since all such definitions go
into the same "groups" hash, it is quite easy for conf/fragments/abc.conf
to write in its own (re-)definition of "@abc"! That would be a neat
little security hole :)
The way to close it is to consider only members of the "@abc" groupset
defined in the main ("master") config file for this purpose.
collect the delegated config fragments from correspondingly named branches of
the gitolite-admin repo, and put them all in conf/fragments/
also deprecate changes to conf and keydir locations from now on
Again, prep for delegation, when we'll be reading fragments of config rules
from various files and tacking them onto the %repos hash.
note: this patch best viewed with "git diff -w", clicking "Ignore space
change" in gitk, or eqvt :-)
