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# administering and running gitolite
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*Note*: some of the paths in this document use variable names. Just refer to
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`~/.gitolite.rc` for the correct values for *your* installation.
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In this document:
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* administer
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* adding users and repos
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* specifying gitweb and daemon access
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* custom hooks
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### administer
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First of all, ***do NOT add new repos manually***, unless you know how to add
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the required hook as well. Without the hook, branch-level access control will
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not work for that repo, which sorta defeats the idea of using gitolite :-)
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Please read on to see how to do this correctly.
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#### adding users and repos
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* ask each user who will get access to send you a public key. See other
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sources (for example [here][genpub]) for how to do this
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[genpub]: http://sitaramc.github.com/0-installing/2-access-gitolite.html#generating_a_public_key
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* rename each public key according to the user's name, with a `.pub`
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extension, like `sitaram.pub` or `john-smith.pub`. You can also use
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periods and underscores
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* copy all these `*.pub` files to `keydir` in your gitolite-admin repo clone
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* edit the config file (`conf/gitolite.conf` in your admin repo clone). See
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`conf/example.conf` in the gitolite source for details on what goes in
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that file, syntax, etc. Just add new repos as needed, and add new users
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and give them permissions as required. The users names should be exactly
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the same as their keyfile names, but without the `.pub` extension
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* when done, commit your changes and push
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#### specifying gitweb and daemon access
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This is a feature that I personally do not use (corporate environments don't
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like unauthenticated access of any kind to any repo!), but someone wanted it,
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so here goes.
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To make a repo or repo group accessible via "git daemon", just give read
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permission to the special user "daemon". See the [faq, tips, etc][ss]
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document for easy ways to specify access for multiple repositories.
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[ss]: http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/blob/pu/doc/3-faq-tips-etc.mkd#gwd
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There's a special user called "gitweb" also, which works the same way.
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However, setting a description for the project also enables gitweb permissions
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so you may as well use that method and kill two birds with one stone, like so:
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gitolite = "fast, secure, access control for git in a corporate environment"
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You can also specify an owner for gitweb to show, if you like:
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gitolite "Sitaram Chamarty" = "fast, secure, access control for git in a corporate environment"
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Note that gitolite does **not** install or configure gitweb/daemon -- that is
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a one-time setup you must do separately. All this does is:
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* for daemon, create the file `git-daemon-export-ok` in the repository
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* for gitweb, add the repo (plus owner name, if given) to the list of
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projects to be served by gitweb (see the config file variable
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`$PROJECTS_LIST`, which should have the same value you specified for
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`$projects_list` when setting up gitweb)
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* put the description, if given, in `$repo/description`
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The "compile" script will keep these files consistent with the config settings
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-- this includes removing such settings/files if you remove "read" permissions
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for the special usernames or remove the description line.
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#### custom hooks
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If you want to put in your own, custom, hooks every time a new repo is created
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by gitolite, put a **tested** hook script in `src/hooks`. As distributed, the
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only file there is the `update` hook, but everything (*everything*) in that
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directory will get copied to the `hooks/` subdirectory of every *new* repo
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created.
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In order to push a new or updated hook script to *existing* repos as well,
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just run easy install once again; it'll do it to existing repos also.
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**VERY IMPORTANT SECURITY NOTE: the `update` hook in `src/hooks` is what
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implements all the branch-level permissions in gitolite. If you fiddle with
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the hooks directory, please make sure you do not mess with this file
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accidentally, or all your fancy per-branch permissions will stop working.**
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