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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 47m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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11.5 Initializing Gitosis

Gitosis comes with a program, gitosis-init, to handle initialization. gitosis-init doesn’t require any options, but it must be run as the user you created in the previous section. If you used the recommended git user, your init command looks like this:

 
​prompt> sudo -H -u git gitosis-init < /path/to/id_rsa.pub
 
​Initialized empty Git repository in​
 
​ /srv/example.com/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/​
 
​Reinitialized existing Git repository in​
 
​ /srv/example.com/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/​

This initializes Gitosis and its repository. All that’s left now is the configuration. If you got an OSError exception, continue reading this section. Otherwise, you can ...

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