Gitosis is software to manage a collection of Git repositories on a server accessible by SSH, without creating local accounts for the users. It has not been updated since 2009. Gitolite is an actively developed alternative with a richer feature set. Use this tag for help with Gitosis installation and usage.
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Git / Gitosis - Repository Read Access Denied
I have installed git on a ubuntu Server. From my local machine using tortoiseGIT I have cloned the gitosis-admin to my local machine. Everything worked fine.
After checking out the gitosis-admin repository to manage my keys and my Repositories in…

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Git and Gitosis configuration
I trying from 3 days ago to setup a git and gitosis and i found a simple tutorial
nfocipher.com....
My problem cames at Step 7 - (On your client) when i trying to get a clone of gitosis-admin and conf it. My bash ask me for password... And it seems…

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Gitosis: only works editing authorized_keys
The only way I can have access to gitosis projects is by manually copying the id_rsa.pub of each account I added, into home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys.
If I copy/paste the output from the id_rsa.pub into authorized_keys, then Im able to clone using…

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Removing a branch hosted with gitosis
I have a git repo hosted on my server using gitosis. I had branches master and template, I renamed the template branch to develop and pushed the develop branch to the gitosis repo which created a new branch named develop, but if I look in the…

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Unable to archive git repository
I'm able to clone a repository with this command:
$ git clone ssh://gitosis@myhost.com:22222/MyRepo.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/andrew/MyRepo/.git/
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However, I'm unable to archive it:
$ git archive --remote…

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git autodeploy script within post-receive hook on ubuntu
I have an autodeploy bash script to get updated repo to /tmp in 'post-receive' hook on gitosis
#!/bin/bash
PWD=$PWD
REPO_NAME=${PWD##/*/}
cd /tmp
git clone git@atom-desktop:$REPO_NAME
But anytime when I push repository I got error like…

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gitosis clone submodule .git directory missing
When cloning submodules from a gitosis repo, I got all files except for the .git directory. .git directory is missing. Instead, I got a single .git file. I use git submodule init and git submodule update to clone submodules. How can I get .git…

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Cygwin/Git/Gitosis unable to push new repository
I've recently set up cygwin, git, and gitosis on my Windows Server 2003 box and am having troubles. I've followed just about every tutorial I can find to the letter, and have confirmed that my git account's authorized_keys table is getting updated…

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gitosis auto merge hook
I'm trying to auto-merge between two stable branches using gitosis hooks.
I've found an article that describes how to do this using just git hooks.
I'm just uncertain how to do the same thing using gitosis, any thoughts?
Essentially, a successful…
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Gitosis install issues
I've installed gitosis using the instructions on the main site (http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way). Searching the net it seems pretty standard install method. However I seem to be getting the following…

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Capistrano deploy with gitosis and application server at the same server?
I build gitosis server and stage server on the same VPS server. Clone the repository from gitosis in my local machine or stage server are work well. But cap deploy in local machine always ask me input password as below, I have no idea which password…

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Is setuping gitosis, or similar tools, really worth it?
Just as the title says, is it worth it going for a gitosis or gitolite setup instead of a simple git server setup?
Or, will it have any benefits in the future when I'll have more people pushing commits to that server?

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Add users to gitosis (configuration/spaces in username)
I'am trying to authorize some windows users on my gitosis-repositorys. The users have "spaces" within their usernames.
The files are added to the gitosis keydir directory and pushed to origin, the new users are added as members in gitosis.conf.…

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How can I use git to push changes to a production server?
I'm having trouble setting up git on my production server, I want to be able to make local edits and then push them to my live server ubuntu 11.10.
I was able to make a git repo on my server with gitosis but that simply made a repo that I can clone…

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Where I can find all the files which were committed by an user to the gitosis repository on my server?
I just installed gitosis on my server and I successfully
created a new repository.
I can commit changes to git@IP:srv_repository.git but I don't know where I can find these files (with committed changes) on my server?
Thank you.

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