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# who uses gitolite
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> > If you're using gitolite and find it very useful in some way, I would
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> > love to describe your use of it or add a link to your own description
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> > of it here. Of course, you can anonymise it as much as you need to.
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The **Fedora Project** controls access to over 10,000 package management
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repositories accessed by over 1,000 package maintainers [using
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gitolite][fedora]. This is probably the largest *confirmed* gitolite
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installation anywhere. The whole [big-config][bc] thing was initially done
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for them (their config file was so big that without the big-config changes
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gitolite would just run out of memory and die!).
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[fedora]: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-July/000647.html
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[bc]: http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/blob/pu/doc/big-config.mkd
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The **KDE project** is currently [testing][kdet] gitolite to see if it will
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suit their needs (in combination with redmine for issue tracking and
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reviewboard for code review), after an initial [review of alternatives][kdera]
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by a core group. Apart from the usual access control, the KDE folks will be
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using many of the "ad hoc repo creation" features enabled by wildrepos and the
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accompanying commands. Some of the changes to the "admin defined commands"
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were inspired by KDE's needs.
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[kdet]: http://www.omat.nl/2010/07/07/move-to-git-the-progress-so-far/
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[kdera]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.scm-interest/1437
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**Prof. Hiren Patel** of the University of Waterloo is responsible for the
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existence of the fairly popular "[wildrepos][wild]" feature. The
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documentation was pretty much written with his use case in mind, but of course
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it turns out to be useful for a lot of people.
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In fact, he surprised the heck out of me recently by saying that if it hadn't
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been for this feature, he might not have used git itself -- which is a pretty
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serious compliment if you think about the magnitude of the git project and my
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little one-man show!
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He explains his use of it [here][hiren].
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[wild]: http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/blob/pu/doc/wildcard-repositories.mkd
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[hiren]: http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~hdpatel/uwhtml/?p=470
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**Gentoo Linux** has [just moved][gentoo1] their git repositories from gitosis
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to gitolite. There are about 200 repositories, some of them are the so called
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[overlays][gentoo2], official and unofficial/user overlays, plus several
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developer and project repositories, used by more than 1000 people. That number
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will be increased in the near future, as they are going to migrate some of
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their CVS/SVN repositories there, plus they are offering overlays hosting for
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users as well.
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[gentoo1]: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_2812c9b9e768f64b46360ab17b9d0024.xml
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[gentoo2]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/
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