Gitolite Essentials.

Chamarty, Sitaram.

Gitolite Essentials. - Packt Publishing, 2014. - 1 online resource - Community experience distilled . - Community experience distilled. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Getting Started with Gitolite; Common Access Control needs; Access Control example with Gitolite; Sampling of Gitolite's power features; Creating groups; Personal branches; Personal repositories; Gitolite and the Git control flow; Trying out Gitolite; Preparing for the setup; Installing and setting up a test instance; Playing with Gitolite; Summary; Installing Gitolite; Gitolite users and the hosting user; Distinguishing users from each other; Preparing the server. Getting the Gitolite sourceInstalling the code; Setting up Gitolite; Creating an ssh key pair; Running the setup command; Checking over your new Gitolite server; Adding a user; Adding a repository; Summary; Your Users and Gitolite; Accessing Git repositories; Git servers, SSH, and HTTP; Accessing Gitolite repositories; SSH key pairs; Repository naming; Getting information from Gitolite; Gitolite commands; Getting help for commands; Troubleshooting SSH issues; Authorization, not authentication; Duplicate public keys; Diagnosing public key problems; SSH best practice; Summary. Adding and Removing UsersAdding users; Behind the scenes; Users with multiple key pairs; Giving some users a shell; Managing keys outside Gitolite; Getting user group information from LDAP; Removing users; Summary; Managing Repositories; Adding repositories; Adding existing repositories; Common problems and troubleshooting; Ownership and permissions; Converting a non-bare repository to a bare repository; Gitolite and the update hook; Summary; Getting Started with Access Control; Basic access control examples; Basic branch level access control; Lexical syntax of the conf file. The syntax of access control rulesBranch level access control and refexes; Using deny rules; The permission field; Defining user and repo groups; Working with large groups; The special @all group; The include statement; Rule accumulation and delegation; Summary; Advanced Access Control and Configuration; Making changes to the rc file; Giving users their own branches; Types of write operations; Allowing Gitweb and Git-daemon access; Locating the projects list file; Unix permissions and the umask; Specifying Git config values and Gitolite options; Deleting a git-config key. Substituting the repository nameOverriding config values; Gitolite options; Applying deny rules to read access; Understanding VREFs; Summary; Allowing Users to Create Repos; Putting repositories in Sub-directories; Repository wildcards; Creating a wildcard repository; Giving access to other users; Generalizing the ruleset; Explaining wild repos to your users; Managing with just wild repos; Deleting wild repositories; Summary; Customizing Gitolite; Core and non-core Gitolite; Types of non-core code and examples; Commands; Syntactic sugar; Triggers; Virtual refs; Writing your own non-core code.

The book is written to suit an easy-reading style, using typical problems in access control to illustrate the need for each Gitolite feature explained. This book is for system administrators or development managers who need to keep a lid on Git-based development workflows. Basic knowledge of Git as well as of the Unix shell is helpful.


English.

1306640245 (electronic bk.) 9781306640244 (electronic bk.) 9781783282388 (electronic bk.) 178328238X (electronic bk.) 9781783282371 1783282371

595275 MIL

018006488 Uk


Git (Computer file)
Git (Computer file)


Open source software.
Software engineering.
Logiciels libres.
GĂ©nie logiciel.
COMPUTERS--Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS--Computer Science.
COMPUTERS--Data Processing.
COMPUTERS--Hardware--General.
COMPUTERS--Information Technology.
COMPUTERS--Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS--Reference.
Open source software.
Software engineering.


Electronic books.
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