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title: "gitolite"
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description: Installation notes of gitolite
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---
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## Introduction
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This article details how I installed and configured gitolite on FreeBSD, with ansible.
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## Installation
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gitolite can be bootstrapped with the following :
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```yaml
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- name: Install common freebsd packages
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package:
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name:
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- gitolite
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```
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I create a system group and a system user:
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```yaml
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- name: Create git group on server
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group:
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name: git
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system: yes
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- name: Create git user on server
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user:
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name: git
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group: git
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shell: /bin/sh
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home: /srv/git
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createhome: yes
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system: yes
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password: '*'
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```
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Repositories will be kept under `/srv/git`. This password is a special value for the user module that specifies a disabled password.
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## Initial setup
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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:
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```sh
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su - git
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gitolite setup -pk id_ed25519.pub
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```
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You should then be able to clone the `gitolite-admin` repository on your workstation:
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```sh
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git clone git@git.adyxax.org:gitolite-admin
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```
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## Configuration
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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:
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```perl
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GIT_CONFIG_KEYS => 'cgit.desc cgit.extra-head-content cgit.homepage cgit.hide cgit.ignore cgit.owner cgit.section',
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```
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These keys allow me to specify repositories like this:
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```perl
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repo adyxax/bareos-zabbix-check
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RW+ = adyxax
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config cgit.desc = A Zabbix check for bareos backups
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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">
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config cgit.owner = Julien Dessaux
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config cgit.section = Active
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```
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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.
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