Installing Git with Gitosis
Git is really simple and VERY powerfull. It makes svn look like an idiot – but that’s just my personal opinion ;-)
Anyways, I’m using github most of the time, but now I’d like to hava a non public repository (yet remote) for some small project. I’ve been commiting to a local git instance from the begining of this project so just pushing it into a new repo will be really simple.
I wanted to have som easy to administer localozed git to serve hit hosting for my friends etc. So this is how I did it:
On server:
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cd ~/src
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git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git
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cd gitosis
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./setup.py install
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useradd git
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#end of obvious stuff
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gitosis-init < /location/of/administrators/public/id_rsa.pub #this will allow you to administer gitosis remotely
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sudo chmod 755 /home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update # in case gitosis-init didn't do this already
Now we can do all the administration without being logged in into our server – just by using git!
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git clone git@stratos:gitosis-admin.git
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cd gitosis-admin
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vim gitosis.conf #edit groups and repositories
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writable = bla is responsible for the repositories
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#for example you could setup:
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#then just do the stuff you would normally do with git:
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#[group secret-group]
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#writable = bla
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#members = ktoso@homunculus ktoso@protos
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#here's how your dir structure should look like
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#├── gitosis.conf #repository configuration
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#└── keydir #put all (ssh) public keys of your users in here
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# ├── ktoso@homunculus.pub
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# └── ktoso@protos.pub
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#now just do what you would normally do with a git repository
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git add .
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git commit -m 'new repo: bla'
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git push
You can then just pull/clone this repo:
git clone git://stratos/bla.git
Yeah, this post isn't much of an discovery - yet I wanted to show you how SIMPLE and SCALABLE a simple git repository can be. For mor information about git and gitosis see: a simple google search
Believing that: 
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