Setting Up Gitosis On Ubuntu | Linux Today

Setting Up Gitosis On Ubuntu

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 6, 2009

[ 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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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