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Sitaram Chamarty 91f1b74503 document $GL_ALL_INCLUDES_SPECIAL (and clarify/refactor the docs a bit) 2010-10-03 08:48:59 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 3914dc0161 tighten permissions on install
- hardcode 0700 mode for GL_ADMINDIR tree (thanks to ma at
    ibitsense.com) for catching this
  - honor REPO_UMASK for GL_REPO_BASE_ABS creation
  - plus a minor doc update
2010-10-02 05:55:33 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 4957900360 (doc) who-uses-it 2010-09-28 20:26:26 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty da9a1b5cbf gitosis migr doc update to handle user@foo type keys
thanks to frogonwheels for catching this...
2010-09-28 11:46:39 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 67a72a3f5b added support for a post-repo-create hook (gl-post-init)
...some people want to run a special function after a repo is created
2010-09-24 16:58:46 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty c18514e213 (minor) doc updates
inspired by various denizens of #git and the internet at large
2010-09-24 06:04:13 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 3f57f18ee2 wildrepos doc badly needed update due to new features:
- 79f0a5f ("(big one!) more than one wildcard may match a repo...")
    makes some of the dire warnings about this irrelevant
  - d1d2c3e and ad64f99 ("git config settings in wild repos: part 1" and
    "...part 2") makes this caveat also useless

While we were about it, we added a quick intro and tried to make some
other details a little clearer.
2010-09-23 14:44:23 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 4dd17b96cb (http) https tested 2010-09-08 19:34:38 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 595410aa55 (http) first level error reporting now works
I didn't know that remote-curl.c requires 200 OK even if you want to
report an error.

With Ilari's patch at [1] you'll get a more readable message but it is
still good enough now.

[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/155464
2010-09-06 12:11:19 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty cc8ccab924 (http) gitolite without ssh? smart http support is here!
As usual there's more documentation than code.

Unlike usual, however, this isn't completely tested.  Please read the
documentation for details of what works, what doesn't, what has been
tested, what hasn't, and so on.
2010-09-05 21:04:39 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 5f342c0444 more doc revamp; some notes below
- all anchors prefixed by AUTO_ now
  - some bad links fixed (maybe still a few I didn't catch)
  - misc wording changes/additions (support section to README,
    "technical skills" section to install doc, etc).
2010-09-04 03:10:20 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 2cf382ca4e (minor) some doc typos 2010-09-03 09:02:47 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 6c48647c15 (more ssh documentation shenanigans) 2010-09-01 12:43:35 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty c1bd3ca69c umpteenth doc revamp...
because someone else found the doc overwhelming.  However, the suggested
reading order (which so far existed only on the wiki) was probably a
good thing to have at the top of the README, and the disclaimers about
ssh may help keep my sanity a little longer ;-)
2010-08-27 16:54:38 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty d78f66af52 doc for change in info/expand command outputs 2010-08-24 17:52:14 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty d6704d052a doc cleanup on info and expand command
jefferai pointed out that some of the links about this were broken, and
a quick look showed that it was described in multiple places too.
Brought it all together...
2010-08-21 17:02:12 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 870983086c CHANGELOG and progit article updates 2010-08-20 21:03:48 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty fda10c2805 mirroring support...
conf/example.gitolite.rc
  - "slave mode" flag to disable pushes and "list of slaves"

hooks/common/post-receive.mirrorpush
  - code to push to the mirror, creating the repo if needed

src/mirror-shell
  - shell for master pushing to a slave, because we don't actually want
    to go through gitolite itself, yet we have to take care of
    $REPO_BASE being wherever.  And of course we have to set
    GL_BYPASS_UPDATE_HOOK to 1 for the push to happen!

src/gl-mirror-sync
  - manually runnable program to sync from current server to another
2010-08-11 22:37:35 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 2dc02e9a75 (minor) document GL_BYPASS_UPDATE_HOOK 2010-08-09 23:21:14 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 4fa5442daa two months too late for towel day... but "dont-panic"!
gl-emergency-addkey replaced by totally new gl-dont-panic, which does
more (including recovering from a botched push, not just lost keys), is
cleaner, and works for all install methods
2010-08-09 23:21:14 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty c1eeaf3c2c detect gl-emergency-addkey attempt for server side installs
and give a suitable message, fix the doc, etc.

(error found by "ry" on #git backlog; couldn't contact him later)
2010-08-09 23:21:13 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 5753557b52 mob branches document! (wow, that easy? hmm...) 2010-08-09 23:01:01 +05:30
Adilson Carvalho 7056a1a653 Edited a little English mistake 2010-08-03 23:22:29 -03:00
Sitaram Chamarty f0c280cd38 allow "info" to have some chance of working on big-config setups!
Fedora, till now, had no hope in hell of running the info command.  Why?
Because the output of the info command is semantically the same as the
output of the compile script *before* the big-config mode was created.

And we all know how _that_ went ;-)

So now you get to give "info" a partial reponame or a pattern, just like
in the case of "expand".  And if you're under GL_BIG_CONFIG this pattern
is mandatory.  And if you try to cheat it'll still stop after showing 5
entries to prevent (accidental?) DOSs

Anyway, see doc changes in this commit for more details.
2010-07-31 01:30:43 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 063d2f9c6e (minor) don't assume "ssh gitolite" applicable always in docs
[thanks to hal-eisen on github for catching this, although I could not
directly use his patches.]
2010-07-29 09:05:35 +05:30
Sitaram Chamarty 0d0e7e5d72 (really big config) 2 new rc variables
...to prevent auto-creation of repos from config, and to prevent
processing of ssh keys.  Also doc update
2010-07-23 20:21:52 +05:30
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]

----

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"

----

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