Setup your own git server using gitolite

In this blog I will going to provide the step to setup your own git server on Ubuntu.
For doing the same we have to install the couple of package.

1. Setup Git

Using following command we can install Git

sudo apt-get install git-core

2. Create new user

We can create a new user using

root@localhost:~# sudo adduser 
   --system 
   --shell /bin/bash 
   --gecos 'git version control' 
   --group 
   --disabled-password 
   --home /home/git git

Here we have disabled the password because we will access using ssh key.

3. Generate SSh Key

We can generate ssh key using

ssh-keygen -t rsa -f gitolite

or we can use old one.

4. Copy your public key to git user account

Now we have to copy the public key name git.pub to git user using

sudo cp ~/.ssh/git.pub /home/git/

and change the owner of git.pub using

sudo chown git:git /home/git/git.pub

5. Setup Gitolite

Now we have to setup the Gitolite in git user. We have to login in system using git user using

sudo su - git

Now we have to install to Gitolite using

git clone git://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite

We will install it in the git user’s home directory under “~/bin”, so we first create this directory using

mkdir bin

Now change dir to cloned gitolite and install it using

gitolite/install -to /home/git/bin

Now we will upload git.pub to gitolite so the user how have this public key can commit and push the changes. We will do it using

/home/git/bin/gitolite setup -pk git.pub

We are done with installation. Exit from git using using

exit

6. Take control

Here Git controlling git. Let’s download the gitolite-admin from our newly created git repository using

git clone git:gitolite-admin

Change dir to gitolite-admin and execute the ls command and you will find there 2 directory named conf and keydir.
Now we are ready to manage the git server manually or programmatic .
Open the gitolite.conf file and start creating user. You can see the config in file like

repo    gitolite-admin
  RW+     =   local

  repo    testing
  RW+     =   @all

repo    jellyfishgitrepo
RW+     =   jellyfish

Here I have create a new repo named “jellyfishgitrepo” and provide the read and write access and jellyfish is the name of public key. you have to create a public key name jellyfish.pub and put it in keydir and push it to server. Once we have pushed it successfully to gitolite it will create a new repository and provide access to user who have jellyfish.pub.

I hope that gives you a good overview of how to install gitolite.