# customising gitolite

Here are the ways you can customise gitolite on the server.

First, learn about:

  * [git hooks][hooks] and [virtual refs][vref]

  * [commands][] for your [users][] to run own][dev-notes]

  * [triggers][] to be run by gitolite as various points in its execution

  * [syntactic sugar][sugar] to change the conf language for your convenience

For all of the above:

  * [edit the rc file][rc] to enable optional features that are shipped in a
    disabled state

  * [write your own][dev-notes]

(Note: "trigger" is the same concept as "hook", applied to gitolite; I just
chose a different name to avoid constant ambiguity in documentation).