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Setting up gitolite on your server account without root or a special 'git' user

Setting up gitolite on your server account without root or a special 'git' user

gitolite is a tool for managing multi-user access to Git respoitories. Here's how I set them up on a shared server on which I don't have root access.

Prerequisites.

I'll presume you've played around a bit with Git repositories on your local machine. My favorite introduction is