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Sitaram Chamarty 988934dec1 (minor) admin doc change on moving existing repos into gitolite 2010-07-23 17:06:48 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 1488973412 (doc) INSTALL doc needs info on URLs
More and more people are using one of the first 3 methods of install
(the ones that don't involve running "src/gl-easy-install" from the
client side) usualy due to RPM/DEB being available now.

Previously, the ending message on running that command was serving this
purpose, and so it never really got written down in so many words.

[thanks to antgel for catching this]

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while we were there, we removed a now-obsolete section that talks about
how to use just one key; there are better methods now
2010-07-05 16:22:10 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty d6a7e3b182 (minor) install doc, new hooks 2010-06-22 14:52:05 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty acff0bd3d0 hook propagation doc much expanded now 2010-06-20 08:06:54 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty bc5fc5793d (minor) added hook propagation doc 2010-06-19 11:33:18 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty a430cc57c7 separating "push" from "create"
This is what I *should* have done back then; thanks to Jeff Mitchell for
pointing out a problem with the old method.

The old one is *definitely* a kludge.  <shamefaced grin>
2010-06-18 21:34:43 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 78c8caa24c Revert "now you can disallow creation of new refs if you like"
This reverts commit 6d32e4e920.

see subsequent commits for why
2010-06-18 19:31:06 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 0f5f82e4f5 log message changes (warning: minor backward compat breakage)
The log message format has changed.  All log messages now have a common
prefix (timestamp, user, IP).  This is followed by $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
(or, in one special case, the name of the user's login shell).  Any
further text appears after this (currently this only happens in the case
of a successful push -- one for each ref pushed successfully)
2010-06-16 17:22:37 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 1ecc7ae74e (minor) added overkill doc 2010-06-16 14:19:31 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 97b094bccb some doc updates (plus CHANGELOG) 2010-06-15 23:01:22 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 517786572d (adc fork) fork is now fast and space-efficient on the server
uses "git clone -l" then manually sets up the gl-creater and hooks

(thanks to Jeff and the kde gang for asking ;-)
2010-06-12 16:26:38 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6d32e4e920 now you can disallow creation of new refs if you like
see doc/3 for details (look for "separating delete and rewind rights"

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and for gerrit, this is one more thing it can do that we can too ;-)

[the original text was somewhat misleading.  We mean "prevent someone
from creating a branch that they have permissions to push".  That is
what is now possible, where it was not possible before.]
2010-06-02 06:47:22 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 18267706db doc/0: a minor clarification and a minor re-ordering 2010-06-02 06:19:54 +05:30
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 5bbd102059 (contrib) how to enable or disable push for maintenance
...for some or all repos

(and a minor bug fix in the adc.common-functions file)
2010-05-31 20:49:14 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ce2e8b6788 (minor) doc/6: mention putty/plink 2010-05-29 19:16:48 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 701b182021 document the add_host_nickname branch changes 2010-05-23 12:04:01 +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 fd85ee2c91 *try* to make upgrades resilient to format changes (pkg maintainers please read)
the commits leading up to v1.5 caused the data format to change (we
added a rule sequence number).

This in turn caused a problem for people who may have installed using
the "system install / user setup" mode of install (which includes people
who used RPM/DEB to install it) -- they would now have to *manually* run
"gl-setup" once after the rpm/deb upgrade.

This commit *tries* to mitigate this problem by recording a data format
version number in the compiled output file.  On any access to that file,
if the version number is not found or is found to be not equal to the
current version, gl-setup is run again.

The reason I say "*tries*" is that the exact command used to do this is
a bit of a hack for now.  However, if it works for Fedora and Debian,
I'm going to leave it at that :)
2010-05-21 14:40:03 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty c993050ef9 (minor) doc/3: doc fix on multikeys 2010-05-20 17:08:21 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 3ddc8aa0ca (important upgrade info here)
There has been a format change to the compiled output file.  As the
CHANGELOG says:

    Upgrading to v1.5 from any version prior to v1.5 requires an extra
    step for people who installed gitolite using the "system install /
    user setup" method described in doc/0-INSTALL.mkd.  For such
    installations, after the administrator has upgraded gitolite
    system-wide, each "gitolite host" user must run `gl-setup` once
    (without any arguments).

    This is *not* an issue if you installed using src/gl-easy-install.
2010-05-19 14:33:35 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty f9e5c8b7b2 (big-config) doc fixup 2010-05-18 17:51:46 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty c3d23f8734 Merge branch 'pu-big-config' into pu 2010-05-18 15:40:18 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 35750c1abe (big-config) update doc and rc, allow skipping gitweb/daemon
skipping gitweb/daemon has an enormous impact on speed of an admin-push!
2010-05-16 12:51:03 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 58fc6a3252 (big-config) documentation 2010-05-14 21:44:51 +05:30
Teemu Matilainen 42c3543e97 contrib: Add gitweb example configurations
Move the example code from doc/3 to contrib/gitweb/ and modify it
to work with both wildcard and non-wildcard setups.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Matilainen <teemu.matilainen@reaktor.fi>
2010-05-14 19:07:16 +03:00
Sitaram Chamarty 3d9f230b41 Merge branch 'master' into pu (svnserve contrib code)
Conflicts:
	src/gl-auth-command
2010-05-10 08:12:09 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 4ad9807225 doc/3: made doc for extcmd a little more generic,
with specific sections for commands as needed
2010-05-10 07:25:23 +05:30
Vladimir Panteleev cf9bb98e87 tweaked and documented svnserve support 2010-05-10 07:01:50 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6c682721b5 (minor) doc updates 2010-04-29 19:25:40 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 2eaa2c6416 (minor) update changelog, features lists in both readme and doc/3
(and raise the reward, though Teemu already wont it actually!)
2010-04-29 19:25:39 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6787dc2c84 (minor) fix docs about admin-ing a gitolite installation
(since easy-install is no longer the *only* install method)
2010-04-29 19:25:39 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty ffccd0a4d3 gl-system-install -- system-wide install program
(as if we didn't already have enough programs with the word "install" in
their names!)

Anyway, this does what an RPM or a DEB would do -- basically implement
the instructions in Appendix C of doc/0.

You can use this to do a system-wide install if your distro isn't as
smart, forward-looking, and uptodate as Fedora ;-)

Clone the repo somewhere, cd to it, and run, for example:

    sudo src/gl-system-install /usr/local/bin /var/gitolite/conf /var/gitolite/hooks

or something like that.  See doc/0 for details.  Run without arguments
for help.
2010-04-29 19:25:39 +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 ff2be4c1ed (adc) documentation 2010-04-25 13:21:17 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6edc7a4d5f (rrq) document the report output 2010-04-25 13:21:16 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 820d3f5948 the most common problems an admin will see
an admin who refuses to read messages that show up on the screen, that is ;-)
2010-04-22 07:57:25 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 45ecc518f0 WARNING: WE NOW REFUSE TO RUN IF GIT ON THE SERVER IS < 1.6.2
I just got tired of supporting old gits.  Sorry.  Had to happen sooner
or later.

I know you feel upset right now but later you'll thank me.
2010-04-19 21:57:47 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty fabeedf103 document the info and expand commands 2010-04-16 20:07:50 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 8a4cccf236 doc/7 and doc/0: how to clear out a botched install 2010-04-16 06:34:45 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 2a776e56ad "D" must be combined with RW or RW+ (warning: minor backward compat breakage)
Having to specify "D" separately from RW or RW+ was cumbersome, and
although I don't actually use this feature, I can see the point.

One way to think of this is:

  - RW and RW+ were the only existing branch level rights
  - it doesnt make sense to have D rights without W (hence RW) rights
  - so we simply suffix a D to these if required.

Thus you can have RW, RW+, RWD, RW+D.

I hope the (hopefully few) of you who have started to use this feature
will convert your configs when you next upgrade to "pu".

I now regret pushing the previous syntax to master too quickly -- lots
of people use master only, and on the next promotion of pu the syntax
will change.  To reduce this exposure, this change will be promoted to
master very soon.
2010-04-15 06:37:35 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 461a581322 (minor) document what to do when you have *two* gits
...and the wrong one ends up runing
2010-04-14 23:19:20 +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 850e583ac7 changelog for v1.4 2010-04-13 18:35:33 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 344fb0a2b7 allow user to define filenames that our hooks chain to
(although the defaults are still update.secondary and
post-update.secondary if you don't do anything)
2010-04-13 18:26:34 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 55e754a09f added notes on how to do more things via admin push 2010-04-12 21:10:52 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 4b65cc51d3 document how to create multiple gitolite instances on one server...
...and provide a pointer from the delegations doc for people taking
delegation too far ;-)
2010-04-11 04:09:50 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 246165537d new server-side program "gl-tool", subcommand "shell-add"
Previous implementations of "give shell access to some gitolite users"
feature were crap.  There was no easy/elegant way to ensure that someone
who had repo admin access would not manage to get himself shell access.

Giving someone shell access requires that you should have shell access
in the first place, so the simplest way is to enable it from the server
side only.

So now that we decided to do that, we may as well prepare for other,
future, commands by starting a server-side utility program with
sub-commands (the only current one being "shell-add")
2010-04-09 21:05:17 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 5aba13cd80 allow 'D' for @all repos
...so that the new semantics can be made system-default if someone wants
to do that
2010-03-31 06:45:29 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 967af2c993 compile/update: new "D" permission
normally, RW+ means permission to rewind or delete.

Now, if you use "D" permission anywhere in a repo config, that means
"delete" and RW+ then means only "rewind", no delete.
2010-03-30 23:28:26 +05:30