d78bbe8c3e
- 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
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administering and running gitolite
Note: some of the paths in this document use variable names. Just refer to
~/.gitolite.rc for the correct values for your installation.
administer
First of all, do NOT add new repos manually, unless you know how to add the required hook as well. Without the hook, branch-level access control will not work for that repo, which sorta defeats the idea of using gitolite :-)
Please read on to see how to do this correctly.
adding users and repos
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ask each user who will get access to send you a public key. See other sources (for example here) for how to do this
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rename each public key according to the user's name, with a
.pubextension, likesitaram.puborjohn-smith.pub. You can also use periods and underscores -
copy all these
*.pubfiles tokeydirin your gitolite-admin repo clone -
edit the config file (
conf/gitolite.confin your admin repo clone). Seeconf/example.confin the gitolite source for details on what goes in that file, syntax, etc. Just add new repos as needed, and add new users and give them permissions as required. The users names should be exactly the same as their keyfile names, but without the.pubextension -
when done, commit your changes and push
specifying gitweb and daemon access
This is a feature that I personally do not use (corporate environments don't like unauthenticated access of any kind to any repo!), but someone wanted it, so here goes.
There's no special syntax for this -- just give read permission to a user
called gitweb or daemon! (This also means you can't have a normal user
with either of those two names, but I doubt that's a problem!). See the "faq,
tips, etc" document for easy ways to specify access for multiple repositories.
Note that this does not install or configure gitweb/daemon -- that is a one-time setup you must do separately. All this does is:
- for gitweb, add the repo to the list of projects to be served by gitweb
(see the config file variable
$PROJECTS_LIST, which should have the same value you specified for$projects_listwhen setting up gitweb) - for daemon, create the file
git-daemon-export-okin the repository
The "compile" script will keep these files consistent with the config settings -- this includes removing such settings if you remove "read" permissions for the special usernames.