Setup Gitolite on Ubuntu (Maverick)

Below is a quick guide to installing Gitolite on Ubuntu.

1. Create an SSH public/private key pair

   [silas@client]$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
   

2. Upload the public key to the server

   [silas@client]$ scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@server.example.org:/tmp/user.pub
   

3. SSH to the server and become root

   [silas@client]$ ssh user@server.example.org
   [silas@server]$ sudo su -
   

4. Install gitolite

   [root@server]# apt-get install gitolite
   

5. Switch to the gitolite user

   [root@server]# su - gitolite
   

6. Run the Gitolite setup script

   [gitolite@server]$ gl-setup /tmp/user.pub
   

7. From your client computer clone the gitolite-admin repository

   [silas@client]$ git clone gitolite@server.example.org:gitolite-admin
   Cloning into gitolite-admin...
   remote: Counting objects: 6, done.
   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
   remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
   Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), done.
   

8. Switch to the gitolite-admin directory

   [silas@client]$ cd gitolite-admin
   

9. Create a test repository

   [silas@client]$ vim conf/gitolite.conf
   [silas@client]$ git commit -a -m "Add test repository"
   [master 507045a] Add test repository
    1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
   [silas@client]$ git push
   Counting objects: 7, done.
   Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
   Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
   Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 376 bytes, done.
   Total 4 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
   remote: Already on 'master'
   remote: creating test...
   remote: Initialized empty Git repository in /var/lib/gitolite/repositories/test.git/
   To gitolite@server.example.org:gitolite-admin
      87cc470..507045a  master -> master
   

10. Clone the test repository

    [silas@client]$ git clone gitolite@server.example.org:test
    Cloning into test...
    warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
    

11. Add a README file to the test repository

    [silas@client]$ echo "Test Repo" > README
    [silas@client]$ git commit -a -m "Initial commit"
    [master (root-commit) 4a49ee0] Initial commit
     1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
     create mode 100644 README
    

12. Push the changes to the server

    [silas@client]$ git push origin master
    Counting objects: 3, done.
    Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 218 bytes, done.
    Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
    To gitolite@server.example.org:test
     * [new branch]      master -> master
    

Check out the Gitolite wiki for more documentation.

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