Gitolite

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Installation

Package: gitolite

useradd -m projects

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -N "nopassword" -f /tmp/id_rsa

Notice: Optional if you have already public key.

dpkg-reconfigure gitolite

Note: this command allow also to create a new repositories directory.

Configuration

.gitolite.rc

$REPO_UMASK = 0077; # gets you 'rwx------'

gitolite.conf

repo    test1
  RW+		= @admin
  - master	= @dev
  RW		= @dev

# source: https://groups.google.com/g/gitolite/c/d2M8Aks_aAw
repo  test2
  RW master = @admin
  - master  = @admin
  RW+       = @admin

Notes:

• admin group can do anything on test1, but cannot rewind/rebase on other branches than master on test2
• dev group can do nothing on branch master of test1, but can create any other branches on test1, except rebase/rewind on these other branches

FAQ

FATAL: R any xx yy DENIED by fallthru

It happends once when I moved data from a server to another, all I had to do is gitolite setup for each user containing repos

Otherwise go through doc