Gitolite Essentials -- Table of Contents -- Gitolite Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. 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 -- 2. Installing Gitolite -- Gitolite users and the hosting user -- Distinguishing users from each other -- Preparing the server -- Getting the Gitolite source -- Installing 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 -- 3. 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 -- 4. Adding and Removing Users -- Adding 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 -- 5. 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 -- 6. 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 rules -- Branch 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 -- 7. 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 name -- Overriding config values -- Gitolite options -- Applying deny rules to read access -- Understanding VREFs -- Summary -- 8. 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 -- 9. 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 -- Summary -- 10. Understanding VREFs -- Migrating update hooks -- Passing arguments to the VREF code -- Using the permission field -- Maintaining the update hook function -- Default is success -- Example VREFs and their usage -- Writing your own VREF.

Summary -- 11. Mirroring -- Terminology and basic concepts -- Repository level mirroring -- The gitolite-admin repository -- Setting up mirroring -- Example setup -- Bootstrapping the mirroring process -- Mirroring other repositories -- Local repositories and hostname substitution -- Redirecting pushes -- Manual synchronization -- Switching to a different master -- Summary -- Index.