Setting Up Gitosis On Ubuntu

[ Thanks to Falko Timme for this link. ]

"So this article is how to setup and manage a git repository. There are some great services out there than can do this for you, but why pay money for something you can easily do for free? This article shows how to setup and manage a secure and private git repository that people can use as a central sharing point.

"Setting Up Gitosis

"Gitosis is a tool for hosting git repositories. Its common usage is for a central repository that other developers can push changes to for sharing.

"First clone the gitosis repository and run the basic python install. You just need the python setuptools package

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

"And then you can easily install it:

"git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git
cd gitosis

sudo python setup.py install"

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