Installing gitosis on debian

ATTENTION:

current gitosis debian package does a chmod -R git:git /var/cache/git, if you allready have a git repository setup be c arefully! #473574

Install

apt-get update
apt-get install gitosis

This creates a user git with /var/cache/git as $HOME (which is also the default directory for git-daemon to serve). I've changed this to the normal /home/git as i want gitosis only for non-public projects.

Initialise

% su git
$ gitosis-init </tmp/id_rsa.pub 
Initialized empty Git repository in ./
Initialized empty Git repository in ./

Configure

% git clone git@localhost:gitosis-admin.git
% cd gitosis-admin

see gitosis documentation if you need further help on configuration or http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way

Problems:

• ssh git@localhost:

  Mar 31 14:27:06 god sshd[27051]: User git not allowed because account is locked

  If you encounter something like this then you should update your adduser packet because it is broken. #433639
  Fix: change the ! in /etc/shadow in the line of your git user to *.

• gitosis config is not updated after push:

  chmod 755 $(readlink ~git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update)

  The post-update hook is not executable and is a link on debian (#473613), the above should temporarily fix this.