gitosis vs gitolite? [closed]

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I am looking for installing a git server to share projects with my team.

You can just use git.

To have a git server the only thing you need on the remote server is git. If you don’t require fine-grained permissions (sharing with only your team suggests that’s a possibility) or any extra features, you don’t need gitolite, or similar.

The no-install solution

If git is available on the remote server, you can do what you’re asking right now, without doing anything

ssh [user@]server
cd repos/are/here/
mkdir project.git
cd project.git
git init --bare

Locally:

cd projects/are/here/project
git remote add origin [user@]server:repos/are/here/project.git
git push -u origin master

Setting up a git server is easy.

If you want to do things with a dedicated git user, the docs for setting up a git server are short – because it really is quite easy to do.

In summary:

  • Install git
  • Create a user named git
  • Add your and your team’s public keys to the git user’s .ssh/authorized_keys file
  • Change the git user’s shell to be git-shell
  • Create repos on the server
  • start git pull/pushing to [email protected]

The only difference between using a dedicated git user and not, is that if you setup the git user to use git-shell it won’t allow itself to do anything else. In terms of acting as a git server though, it’s identical to the no-install solution

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