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| title | description |
|---|---|
| gitolite | Installation notes of gitolite |
Introduction
This article details how I installed and configured gitolite on FreeBSD, with ansible.
Installation
gitolite can be bootstrapped with the following :
- name: Install common freebsd packages
package:
name:
- gitolite
I create a system group and a system user:
- name: Create git group on server
group:
name: git
system: yes
- name: Create git user on server
user:
name: git
group: git
shell: /bin/sh
home: /srv/git
createhome: yes
system: yes
password: '*'
Repositories will be kept under /srv/git. This password is a special value for the user module that specifies a disabled password.
Initial setup
For this step you need to upload your public ssh key to the server and put it in the /srv/git directory. The following will then create a gitolite-admin repository and configure your public ssh key so that you can access it:
su - git
gitolite setup -pk id_ed25519.pub
You should then be able to clone the gitolite-admin repository on your workstation:
git clone git@git.adyxax.org:gitolite-admin
Configuration
In order to customize the cgit frontend, I needed to allow some git configuration keys in /srv/git/.gitolite.rc. I manage the whole file with ansible, but here is the relevant line near the top of the file:
GIT_CONFIG_KEYS => 'cgit.desc cgit.extra-head-content cgit.homepage cgit.hide cgit.ignore cgit.owner cgit.section',
These keys allow me to specify repositories like this:
repo adyxax/bareos-zabbix-check
RW+ = adyxax
config cgit.desc = A Zabbix check for bareos backups
config cgit.extra-head-content=<meta name="go-import" content="git.adyxax.org/adyxax/bareos-zabbix-check git https://git.adyxax.org/adyxax/bareos-zabbix-check">
config cgit.owner = Julien Dessaux
config cgit.section = Active
The cgit.extra-head-content is vital for go get and go install to work properly and took me some google-fu to figure out.