From subversion to git (part3 - gitosis)
In order to have proper permission management with git you will have to install gitosis. Unfortunately there is no Debian package for it yet. For convenience you can download my build here. But building the package yourself is easy as the sources are already debianized.
sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git cd gitosis.git ./debian/rules generate dpkg-checkbuilddeps
Of course you will have to install the packages checkbuilddeps has found missing. Once it’s satisfied you can build the package and install it.
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot sudo dpkg -i gitosis_0.2_all.deb
Note: The dependencies will require your system to be sort of up-to-date. It basically gave me a reason to upgrade from Edgy to Gutsy.
What’s left to do is to configure gitosis. Assuming you already have a public ssh key on your machine you can use that to initalize the repository.
$ scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub you@yourserver.com:/tmp $ sudo -H -u git gitosis-init < /tmp/id_dsa.pub Initialized empty Git repository in ./ Initialized empty Git repository in ./ $ rm /tmp/id_dsa.pub
Then you will have to checkout the gitosis admin project
git clone git@yourserver.com:gitosis-admin.git cd gitosis-admin vi gitosis.conf
and adjust the configuration to your needs.
[gitosis] [repo testproject] gitweb = yes description = Project description owner = you@yourserver.com [group team] writable = testproject members = you@yourserver.com [group gitosis-admin] writable = gitosis-admin members = you@yourserver.com
Also check the keydir. It should include “you@yourserver.com.pub” and all members that are listed in your config. Don’t forget to git-add them. And then commit and push the configuration to the server.
git commit -a -m "Inital configuration" git push
Adding projects is easy now. Just add them through the gitosis-admin project. When you push the changes you will get a warning
WARNING:gitosis.gitweb.set_descriptions:Cannot find 'testproject' in '/home/git/repositories' WARNING:gitosis.gitweb.generate_projects_list:Cannot find 'testproject' in '/home/git/repositories'
Then initialize your project and push it out.
git init git add . git commit -m "initial import" git remote add origin git@yourserver.com:testproject.git git push --all
Thanks to Garry for the help in getting this up and running.
I like your last line “git push –all”. I was using a more complicated version indicated in the gitosis README (that I found hard to remember). Now I’ll keep in mind ‘–all’ :)
apt-get install cdbs also seems to be a dependency that you didn’t mention, at least on my machine. Thanks for the helpful guide!
I did the final push for my new created project to server. It always show me that newproject.git unable to chdir or not a git archive.
Any hint for me, I’ve been bothering on this issue for days!! Thanks!!
BTW, set gitosis.conf correctly is required before init and then push a new project??
I write my steps, can u help to point out where i’m wrong?
After I clone gitosis-admin.git from server
1. First I edit gitosis.conf and add
[group testrepo]
writable = testrepo
members = git-testing
2. mkdir testrepo under directory gitosis-admin-git
3. cd testrepo and then git init-db
4. touch readme and then git add readme
5. git commit -a -m “initial import”
6. git remote add origin git@my.server.name:testrepo.git
7. git push –all (git push origin master)
Result : fatal: ‘testrepo.git’: unable to chdir or not a git archive
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
p.s : In step 7 “:testrepo.git” should I list the specified path? example “:/home/user/gitosis-admin.git/android.git”.
@Elvis: I might have missed out on one step.
Just create the a bare repository where it is supposed to be on the server with “git init –bare”. Let me know if that fixed it.
@tcurdt
I can push by creating a new repo on server and typing the correct repo path. But another error occurs when I was pushing
error: unable to create temporary sha1 filename ./objects/46: Permission denied
fatal: failed to write object
error: unpack failed: unpacker exited with error code
To gitter@192.168.1.22:~gitter/repositories/newrepo.git
! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
error: failed to push some refs to ‘gitter@192.168.1.22:~gitter/repositories/newrepo.git’
Have u ever encountered this issue??
@tcurdt
I can push my new repo to server with luck finally. I revise the new created repo ownership to gituser on my server. And then I can git push with luck.