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    Gitolite Essentials
    Gitolite Essentials
    Gitolite Essentials
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    Gitolite Essentials

    By Sitaram Chamarty

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    The book is written to suit an easyreading style, using typical problems in access control to illustrate the need for each Gitolite feature explained.

    This book is for system administrators or development managers who need to keep a lid on Gitbased development workflows. Basic knowledge of Git as well as of the Unix shell is helpful.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateApr 11, 2014
    ISBN9781783282388
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      Gitolite Essentials - Sitaram Chamarty

      Table of Contents

      Gitolite Essentials

      Credits

      About the Author

      Acknowledgments

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Getting Started with Gitolite

      Common Access Control needs

      Access Control example with Gitolite

      Sampling of Gitolite's power features

      Creating groups

      Personal branches

      Personal repositories

      Gitolite and the Git control flow

      Trying out Gitolite

      Preparing for the setup

      Installing and setting up a test instance

      Playing with Gitolite

      Summary

      2. Installing Gitolite

      Gitolite users and the hosting user

      Distinguishing users from each other

      Preparing the server

      Getting the Gitolite source

      Installing the code

      Setting up Gitolite

      Creating an ssh key pair

      Running the setup command

      Checking over your new Gitolite server

      Adding a user

      Adding a repository

      Summary

      3. Your Users and Gitolite

      Accessing Git repositories

      Git servers, SSH, and HTTP

      Accessing Gitolite repositories

      SSH key pairs

      Repository naming

      Getting information from Gitolite

      Gitolite commands

      Getting help for commands

      Troubleshooting SSH issues

      Authorization, not authentication

      Duplicate public keys

      Diagnosing public key problems

      SSH best practice

      Summary

      4. Adding and Removing Users

      Adding users

      Behind the scenes

      Users with multiple key pairs

      Giving some users a shell

      Managing keys outside Gitolite

      Getting user group information from LDAP

      Removing users

      Summary

      5. Managing Repositories

      Adding repositories

      Adding existing repositories

      Common problems and troubleshooting

      Ownership and permissions

      Converting a non-bare repository to a bare repository

      Gitolite and the update hook

      Summary

      6. Getting Started with Access Control

      Basic access control examples

      Basic branch level access control

      Lexical syntax of the conf file

      The syntax of access control rules

      Branch level access control and refexes

      Using deny rules

      The permission field

      Defining user and repo groups

      Working with large groups

      The special @all group

      The include statement

      Rule accumulation and delegation

      Summary

      7. Advanced Access Control and Configuration

      Making changes to the rc file

      Giving users their own branches

      Types of write operations

      Allowing Gitweb and Git-daemon access

      Locating the projects list file

      Unix permissions and the umask

      Specifying Git config values and Gitolite options

      Deleting a git-config key

      Substituting the repository name

      Overriding config values

      Gitolite options

      Applying deny rules to read access

      Understanding VREFs

      Summary

      8. Allowing Users to Create Repos

      Putting repositories in Sub-directories

      Repository wildcards

      Creating a wildcard repository

      Giving access to other users

      Generalizing the ruleset

      Explaining wild repos to your users

      Managing with just wild repos

      Deleting wild repositories

      Summary

      9. Customizing Gitolite

      Core and non-core Gitolite

      Types of non-core code and examples

      Commands

      Syntactic sugar

      Triggers

      Virtual refs

      Writing your own non-core code

      Summary

      10. Understanding VREFs

      Migrating update hooks

      Passing arguments to the VREF code

      Using the permission field

      Maintaining the update hook function

      Default is success

      Example VREFs and their usage

      Writing your own VREF

      Summary

      11. Mirroring

      Terminology and basic concepts

      Repository level mirroring

      The gitolite-admin repository

      Setting up mirroring

      Example setup

      Bootstrapping the mirroring process

      Mirroring other repositories

      Local repositories and hostname substitution

      Redirecting pushes

      Manual synchronization

      Switching to a different master

      Summary

      Index

      Gitolite Essentials

      Gitolite Essentials

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      Credits

      Authors

      Sitaram Chamarty

      Reviewers

      Javier Domingo Cansino

      milki

      Vinh Quốc Nguyễn

      Hiren Patel

      Giovanni Toraldo

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      About the Author

      Sitaram Chamarty has been in the software industry for a number of years. He is a Linux and open source evangelist who has sometimes been called an open source bigot, which he takes as a compliment. He loves Perl enough to believe, or at least insist, that xkcd 224 is actual fact.

      His day job is with Tata Consultancy Services, and he lives and works in Hyderabad, India. His job does not explicitly include evangelizing open source in general and Git in particular, but he pretends it does. He has significant past experience in language conversion and tools, as well as in data warehousing.

      He has a postgraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

      Acknowledgments

      Acknowledgments for this book must necessarily also include acknowledgments for the success and popularity of Gitolite itself, because without that, this book would not exist.

      Most of Gitolite's power features were born from users asking for them, or presenting their problems in a way that made me think about how Gitolite could help. In particular, I would like to thank Jesse Keating (Fedora), Jeff Mitchell (KDE), John Warthog9 Hawley (kernel.org), and Prof. Hiren Patel (University of Waterloo), for many such ideas as well as hours spent brainstorming about features.

      The Git and Gitolite communities on IRC channels #git and #gitolite, which are part of freenode, are comprised of a fantastic bunch of people. They've certainly helped more people with Gitolite than I have; Gitolite's popularity is almost entirely because of folks such as milki, bremner (Prof. David Bremner), ojacobson (Owen Jacobson), EugeneKay (Eugene E. Kashpureff Jr), and many others.

      I would like to thank my supervisor and my colleagues at TCS for their encouragement, not just in writing this book but with my involvement in Gitolite itself. In particular, Gitolite's mirroring feature would not have been what it is without some of their input and use cases.

      I would also like to thank my reviewers milki, Javier Domingo Cansino, and Hiren Patel for their tireless efforts at fixing up my writing and making me see reason in several instances. Any errors that remain are, of course, entirely mine.

      Finally, I would like to thank my wife and kids for putting up with me while writing the book, especially my wife for keeping the chapter schedule on the fridge door!

      About the Reviewers

      Javier Domingo Cansino got started in University with the open source community and got specialized in Git source code management and several Linux tools.

      Through his Git knowledge, which he gained by working on Gitolite projects from the very beginning, he helps people to have a correct Gitolite installation together with appropriate workflows.

      With several developments during his career in various languages, and knowledge on kernel networking design, now he is developing in C and Python. He can be found over the Internet under the nickname txomon.

      milki is a recent graduate from the University of California, Berkeley, and now works as a software engineer at Yelp, Inc. in San Francisco, California. During his university years, milki mastered Git and FreeBSD as a software developer and a system administrator. milki contributes to the open source project Dulwich, which is a pure python implementation of the Git file formats and protocol. milki also maintains the FreeBSD port of Gitolite, ensuring Gitolite remains free of Linux-specific code. On freenode IRC, milki can be found in #git, #gitolite, and #github, providing users with general advice from Git basics and troubleshooting to best practices and Git internals.

      Hiren Patel is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests are in embedded software and hardware systems. This includes models of computation, real-time systems, computer architecture, and system-level design methodologies.

      Giovanni Toraldo is an open source enthusiast with in-depth knowledge about system administration, cloud computing, and web application development. He currently works as a lead developer for ClouDesire.

      In the past, he wrote OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing and reviewed Mastering Redmine for Packt Publishing.

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