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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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gitosis change server

I installed a fresh instance of gitosis, and also have an old one. What do I have to do to move the repos from the old to the new server? Clone on the new server? What do I have to change on the developer computers, to switch the remote branch? Or…
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Git keeps asking for password

I've searched and searched, for what seems like hours, for a solution to this problem and nothing I've tried works. Let me preface all this by saying that while I've used *nix before, I'm pretty much a noob so I'm sure I missed a step in the setup…
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Authenticating Gitweb with Gitosis without LDAP Auth?

I found your article using Apache Auth with gitweb, gitosis. I was wondering if there was a way to do this if I wasn't using LDAP for authentication. We currently have a very large NIS domain which we use for authentication on all unix servers. We…
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gitosis did not generate projects.list automatically, gitweb can't work

I setup a gitosis managed git server. git clone is ok. but when I set gitweb via gitweb.conf as below: $projectroot = "/srv/gitosis/repositories"; $git_temp = "/tmp"; $home_text = "indextext.html"; $projects_list =…
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Gitosis and ssh keys - does the email address have anything to do with the git email address?

I'm trying to set up gitosis on a server. I was just wondering one thing, my ssh key has my gmail address at the end, because I was originally using it for github. For this new project on the server I'm setting up, I want to use my email address for…
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How to gain shell access when I'm locked out with "PTY allocation request failed on channel 0"

I installed gitosis on a remote shell. It's working fine. But now I can't login to the interactive shell. As told here, it seem gitosis disabled tty. Is there anyway I can get it back? I don't have root access to the remote server.
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Make gitosis-admin git repository secure

I installed gitosis on my Ubuntu 10.4 Server via apt-get install gitosis Then I initialized the admin repository with sudo -H -u gitosis gitosis-init < nameOfThePublicKeyFile After this I thought that it the admin repository is only…
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Post-receive hook for gitosis

I'm running Gitosis and want my committed work to be staged in my html directory. I was trying to use this approach to set GIT_WORKING_TREE to my html directory, but I'm getting the error remote: fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree. I…
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Preventing git push from sending entire repo if not up-to-date

Related question: why does Git send whole repository each time push origin master The short version: When working with two Git repositories, even if 99% of the commit objects are identical, using git push to send a commit to repository B when origin…
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Problem with Hudson + Git + Gitosis on windows

I have git and gitosis running smoothly on windows with msysgit (with OpenSSH), and I would now like Hudson to start using git. So, I have ensured that the hudson windows service is running as the hudson user, and I have added the hudson user…
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Gitosis: setting repository config variables

Is there a way to set repository config variables through the gitosis conf instead of going into each repository and editing the conf values directly?
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git-shell equivalent of svnserve -r?

I'm trying set up a git repository on a shared hosting account that can be accessed by both me and a friend. I have successfully done this with a Subversion repository by adding this line to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys: command="/usr/bin/svnserve -t -r…
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How does Github, Gitlab, Gitosis, etc.. knows which user is logged in?

I asked myself, how do those git-hosting tools/sites know which user is logged in. I mean, you login via SSH git@github.com/... and this means you login as user git and the only information that securely identifies you as your real user is your…
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Why I can't add new repositories using gitosis?

I set up gitosis but even when i can clone, pull and push to the gitosis-admin repo, i can't create new ones. According to every doc i read, to create a new repo one has to: Give user write access to the repo (inside a group put: writable =…
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Gitosis not updating server configuration after push of configuration changes

I've set up gitosis using the tutorial privided at: http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way I found that I was unable to push and create a new repository after adding the appropriate permissions in the…
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