Gitolite essentials 1st Edition by Sitaram Chamarty ISBN 178328238X 9781783282388

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ISBN 10: 178328238X 
ISBN 13: 9781783282388
Author: Sitaram Chamarty

The book is written to suit an easy-reading style, using typical problems in access control to illustrate the need for each Gitolite feature explained. This book is for system administrators or development managers who need to keep a lid on Git-based development workflows. Basic knowledge of Git as well as of the Unix shell is helpful.

Gitolite essentials 1st Table of contents:

1. Getting Started with Gitolite
Common Access Control needs
Access Control example with Gitolite
Sampling of Gitolite’s power features
Creating groups
Personal branches
Personal repositories
Gitolite and the Git control flow
Trying out Gitolite
Preparing for the setup
Installing and setting up a test instance
Playing with Gitolite
Summary

2. Installing Gitolite
Gitolite users and the hosting user
Distinguishing users from each other
Preparing the server
Getting the Gitolite source
Installing the code
Setting up Gitolite
Creating an ssh key pair
Running the setup command
Checking over your new Gitolite server
Adding a user
Adding a repository
Summary

3. Your Users and Gitolite
Accessing Git repositories
Git servers, SSH, and HTTP
Accessing Gitolite repositories
SSH key pairs
Repository naming
Getting information from Gitolite
Gitolite commands
Getting help for commands
Troubleshooting SSH issues
Authorization, not authentication
Duplicate public keys
Diagnosing public key problems
SSH best practice
Summary

4. Adding and Removing Users
Adding users
Behind the scenes
Users with multiple key pairs
Giving some users a shell
Managing keys outside Gitolite
Getting user group information from LDAP
Removing users
Summary

5. Managing Repositories
Adding repositories
Adding existing repositories
Common problems and troubleshooting
Ownership and permissions
Converting a non-bare repository to a bare repository
Gitolite and the update hook
Summary

6. Getting Started with Access Control
Basic access control examples
Basic branch level access control
Lexical syntax of the conf file
The syntax of access control rules
Branch level access control and refexes
Using deny rules
The permission field
Defining user and repo groups
Working with large groups
The special @all group
The include statement
Rule accumulation and delegation
Summary

7. Advanced Access Control and Configuration
Making changes to the rc file
Giving users their own branches
Types of write operations
Allowing Gitweb and Git-daemon access
Locating the projects list file
Unix permissions and the umask
Specifying Git config values and Gitolite options
Deleting a git-config key
Substituting the repository name
Overriding config values
Gitolite options
Applying deny rules to read access
Understanding VREFs
Summary

8. Allowing Users to Create Repos
Putting repositories in Sub-directories
Repository wildcards
Creating a wildcard repository
Giving access to other users
Generalizing the ruleset
Explaining wild repos to your users
Managing with just wild repos
Deleting wild repositories
Summary

9. Customizing Gitolite
Core and non-core Gitolite
Types of non-core code and examples
Commands
Syntactic sugar
Triggers
Virtual refs
Writing your own non-core code
Summary

10. Understanding VREFs
Migrating update hooks
Passing arguments to the VREF code
Using the permission field
Maintaining the update hook function
Default is success
Example VREFs and their usage
Writing your own VREF
Summary

11. Mirroring
Terminology and basic concepts
Repository level mirroring
The gitolite-admin repository
Setting up mirroring
Example setup
Bootstrapping the mirroring process
Mirroring other repositories
Local repositories and hostname substitution
Redirecting pushes
Manual synchronization
Switching to a different master

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