GIT Hosting with gitolite

Setting up GIT hosting using gitolite This is my first git server and after some reading I decided to build gitolite to manage my git repositories. To begin building we need to generate a public/private key pair on your workstation and then we need to download and install gitolite from github since gitolite is not currently available in my servers distribution (Ubuntu 10.04). Alternately, you could install gitolite from your distribution (but that may change these instructions a bit). From your workstation First I generated a DSA keypair on my workstation. $ ssh-keygen -t dsa Generating public/private dsa key pair. …

Transitioning Subversion to GIT

So it has been a long time coming, I have heard about the benefits of GIT for a while now but have not had time to play with it much. So far I am looking forward to improvements in performance over SVN as well as a more secure implementation to share sections of my repository with colleagues. Lastly I hope at a later date to circle around and build out an active directory/ldap enabled config and to start using GIT to manage Linux configurations; but first I need to get my data out of Subversion. To begin we need to …