Re: Clone to an SSH destination

On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 11:21:43 +0100 (BST)
Mark Hills [off-list ref] wrote:

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This is quite cumbersome; we have a large team of devs who use a
simple 'git clone' to an NFS directory, but we wish to retire NFS
access.

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gitolite kind of implements this ("wild repos") [1], you could look if
it suits your needs.

The simplest conf to do what you want in gitolite is something like this:

    repo [a-zA-Z0-9]..*
        C   =   @all
        RW+ =   @all

But of course your *user* authentication will probably change quite a
bit, since gitolite runs as one Unix user and merely simulates many
"gitolite users", while in the NFS method each of your devs probably
has a full login to the server.

I'll check out gitolite, thanks.

We use unix users extensively (groups, permissions etc.) with YP, and this 
works well; a separate permissions scheme is not very desireable.

The ssh method works very well right now, and nicely transparent. It's 
only the initial clone/creation that is harder than it was over NFS. And 
it prevents the use of git-shell too.

Thanks

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Mark