Gitolite Installation

gitolite_install

Your working on your workstation, your *nix username is "mat". You want to install gitolite on a server

1) go to your server, and with admin rights, create a git user. On ubuntu:

adduser git

2) on your workstation, copy you local SSH public key to the git home directory. On ubuntu:

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub git@server

3) check if you can log to the server as git. Now

ssh git@server

should work.

4) You are now on the server, as git user, in the git home directory. (/home/git). You're good. Just copy your "mat" public key here, and rename it as mat.pub right in /home/git.

5)  Clone gitolite :

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

6) install gitolite

gitolite/src/gl-system-install

7) at this point, you must check that the directory ~/bin is in your bin PATH. If not, do it. For example, in your .profile file, at the line:

PATH=/home/git/bin:bin:$PATH 

8) setup gitolite on your "mat.pub" key:

gl-setup ~/mat.pub

9) Here I get a failure saying the RSA pub key is already in ~/.authorized_keys. I delete the key copied simply by ssh-copy-id. I let the key starting with 
command="/home/git/bin/gl-auth-command 

I redo gl-setup ~/mat.pub

it works.