Re: denying branch creation in a shared repository

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Mohit Aron [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

That was the main reason I wrote gitolite
(http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite), though now it does a heck of a
lot more than just that.

That's great. You might want to consider making it a deb package
that's available from one of the Ubuntu/Debian repositories. An apt
search on Ubuntu 9.10 doesn't reveal it. I usually shy away from
installing software on my machines that is not automatically managed.

There are a couple of answers to this:

(1) I'm not really a debian guy, and definitely not ubuntu.  My distro
of choice for nearly 10 years has been Mandriva :-)

(2) gitolite's second reason for existence [after the one in this
thread] is the need to install something on machines where you do
*not* have root, can't create another user, etc etc.  There was a
Solaris 9 on which I couldn't install python-setuptools, and so no
gitosis :-(

Regardless of all that, someone is working on it...
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550817

I respect your inclination to shy away; I do the same for pretty much
everything except git itself and one or two others.

But if you don't mind looking through the documentation (browse it
directly on github; it'll render the markdown properly, though the
plain text is quite readable too), you may be able to better decide if
you want to use it despite this limitation.

Regards,

Sita