Chapter 2. Installing Gitolite
The previous chapter showed you how to set up what we might call a sandbox installation of Gitolite, suitable for experimenting with the software and getting comfortable with it. We did that using a script that hid most of the details of the install process so that you could get to the good stuff.
In this chapter, we will actually perform a proper install of Gitolite. We will start with the prerequisites on the server and move on to the actual install steps. By the end of this chapter, you should have a working installation of Gitolite that is ready to support users and serve up repositories to them securely, enforcing access restrictions as you specify them.
Gitolite users and the hosting user
Gitolite provides access ...
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