Installing Git with Gitosis

Ktoso — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:22:40 +0000

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:

# do this as root of course

cd ~/src
git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git
cd gitosis
./setup.py install
useradd git
#end of obvious stuff
gitosis-init < /location/of/administrators/public/id_rsa.pub #this will allow you to administer gitosis remotely
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!

#all of the following is done LOCALLY!

git clone git@stratos:gitosis-admin.git
cd gitosis-admin
vim gitosis.conf #edit groups and repositories
writable = bla is responsible for the repositories
#for example you could setup:
#then just do the stuff you would normally do with git:
#[group secret-group]
#writable = bla
#members = ktoso@homunculus ktoso@protos
#here's how your dir structure should look like
#├── gitosis.conf #repository configuration
#└── keydir #put all (ssh) public keys of your users in here
# ├── ktoso@homunculus.pub
# └── ktoso@protos.pub
#now just do what you would normally do with a git repository
git add .
git commit -m 'new repo: bla'
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

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Installing Git with Gitosis