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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Pushing to a remote Git server using NetBeans 7.0.1
I have a Linux server remotely, which has GIT and Gitosis configured. The repository is at git.desytec.com/morros. The URL requires authentication because I don't want it to be viewed by others.
When pushing in NetBeans, I use this URL:…

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Gitolite - Can a key file have and @ sign in it
I have a few public key files in my keydir/ some are named like this user@host.pub
In my config file I specify the user as user@host, but when I try and push the changes, I get this warning
remote:
remote: ***** WARNING *****
remote: …

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Gitosis always asking for password, even from initialized host
I setup gitosis a while back and things were running fine, but eventually tragedy struck. Long story short, the machine gitosis was on got nuked, but I had a backup of all the files.
I began attempting to reinstall gitosis, I started from a fresh…

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What alternative to github/gitorious/gitosis can I use on my server?
I would like to know what I can use as alternative as gitorious/gitosis on MY server, and that is able to link bug reports with source (like trac for subversion/...) ?
The server would be linux / osx powered.
Best regards.

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Gitosis on Dotcloud
Is it possible to setup gitosis on dotcloud? If so, what are the steps? I tried to follow this but it wasn't very comprehensive.
Thanks!

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git over ssh: Repository read access denied
I have a git server set up on Linux, and it's working great:
[git@HOST ~]$ git clone -v git://HOST.com/repositories/Extras
Cloning into Extras...
remote: Counting objects: 12, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12/12), done.
remote: Total 12…

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Installing git repository on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 -- SSH problems
I have been banging my head against a wall for a while now, and none of the people in my immediate vicinity know more than I do at this point.
My office has a lab box that they want to use for a central git repository -- mainly for testing various…

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Cannot push commit to gitosis running on virtualbox
After some work, I was able to install Gitosis on Ubuntu Server 11.04 on my local system using VirtualBox. I set up port forwarding so that port 2222 on my local machine matches up with port 22 on the virtual server, and I've been able to access…

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How to create sub group page with gitweb (or any other git web-server)?
I setup a gitosis server with gitweb and I have numbers of git projects there now.
Is there a way to organize these project by groups?
Say I have a group called "tools" and another group called "debug" and each group contains several projects…

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Can I use gitosis/gitolite alongside SmartHTTP to commit to repos?
Background on my situation is this: I'm a long-time Windows and Linux user and in the past few years I've moved exclusively to Windows for my user-facing computers and Ubuntu server for my servers. I'm moving into a new research position where I…

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Correct way to change repository location for gitosis?
What is the recommended way to change the repository location from /srv/gitosis in Gitosis installed via apt-get (on Ubuntu Server 11.04)? I have currently solved it by changing the home dir for the gitosis user and relinking the "git" symlink found…

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Is there a way to add submodules to a bare git repository?
I have some repos on my server with gitosis. One of them is Main, it's including all the others. I work with them from my local machine, and submodules hierarchy was built on my local machine. Gitosis has repos as bare(?) so, it's impossible to…

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Git doesn't find repository
I have a git repository setup on a server:
andy@ubuntu:/home/git/repositories$ ls
gitosis-admin.git GoGoFlow.git
andy@ubuntu:/home/git/repositories$ pwd
/home/git/repositories
All fine and dandy.
I then come to a new machine - which I have not used…

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How do I count the number of commits made in to all repos hosted by gitosis on my server
I am trying to found out the total number of commits made across all repositories hosted on a gitosis install I have. Anyone have any ideas to how I may do this?

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Git "ERROR:gitosis.serve.main:Repository read access denied" when using public keys
I have setup a git server using gitosis and everything was going fine. I decided to switch to using public keys for security reasons. I generated my key on my computer using this command.
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "email@address.com"
I then added the…

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