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Hosting git repositories -- Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with very fine-grained access control and many (many!) more powerful features.

20 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 1 story, 19 comments · first 2010-02-08 · latest 2023-05-11

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  1. Maybe something like gitolite then? https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite I've not used it personally though, so no idea how well it works in practise.
    comment by justinclift · 2023-05-11 · in Incident with Issues and Pull Requests
  2. …I don't know whether Gitolite handles SHA256 hashes (I've never tested it). https://gitolite.com https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
    comment by isomorphic · 2022-06-23 · in Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
  3. …permissions', so I gave a fresh attempt at finding it and I did via SO! It's Gitolite[1]. [1] https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
    comment by Abishek_Muthian · 2020-07-26 · in OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub
  4. If you want to host your own, you can use cgit https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/ and gitolite https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
    comment by Tepix · 2018-06-08 · in Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative
  5. …signed commits, tags, and branches! Simply put, I like the "Hub", I hate the "Git" in GitHub. [0] https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
    comment by nikolay · 2015-11-23 · in How Azure scaled to 2,000 employees on GitHub
  6. …Gitlab, but I've heard good things about it. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4957145 [2] https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
    comment by csense · 2012-12-23 · in Github experiencing major service outages across all services.
  7. It uses Gitolite to create 'virtual' user accounts https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
    comment by sytse · 2012-10-24 · in GitLab, open source github clone, reaches 3.0
  8. …(no GUI), requires a little setup and editing of configuration files and reading of docs. [1] https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite [2] http://prgmr.com/
    comment by csense · 2012-10-01 · in Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service
  9. 2a. https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
    comment by Apreche · 2012-10-01 · in Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service
  10. …AGPL->GPL2. Messed up project name in initial comment.. [1] http://gitlabhq.com/ [2] https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/blob/master/COPYING
    comment by AhtiK · 2012-08-24 · in Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo
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    Gitolite 3.0 Released
    story by sciurus · 2012-04-24 · 2 comments
  12. I believe they use gitolite to do this. ( https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite )
    comment by jhawk28 · 2011-11-23 · in Apache considered harmful
  13. …are awesome (from private 'scratch' repos to auth and key management, and several others). [1] - https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite#_quick_install
    comment by brunomlopes · 2011-10-12 · in Subversion 1.7 is out
  14. …but would love to if I could. I'm currently paying for a prgmr instance just to run gitolite ( https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite ) so I could have a private place to store remotes for my repos. I'm planning to move to bitbucket…
    comment by masnick · 2011-10-03 · in Bitbucket now rocks Git
  15. …system-level account for every collaborator on your VPS (ugly) or install something like gitolite ( https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite ). The downside to gitolite is then you are running your own VPS, i.e. are responsible for security,…
    comment by masnick · 2011-06-20 · in Why I've built an alternative to Github
  16. You can set something like this up on any VPS with gitolite ( https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite ) pretty easily. gitolite lets you set up very fine-grained per-user/repo/branch permissions, manage your users' SSH keys, and gives you…
    comment by masnick · 2011-06-20 · in Why I've built an alternative to Github
  17. …, http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/why-arent-you-using-git-flo... [2] https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite
    comment by metachris · 2011-02-11 · in Rietveld - code review Google style
  18. …kind of data loss impossible. With Gitolite you can even set this permission per-user per-branch ( https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite#_main_features ) so that the great power is only given to those with the great responsibility to handle…
    comment by tomstuart · 2011-02-01 · in Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad
  19. Gitosis is indeed pretty good, but I've recently found better and migrated to gitolite: https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite The flexibility is pretty neat. Being able to do brach-based ACL in particular is killer for some environments and…
    comment by fredoliveira · 2010-11-26 · in RubyDrop - A Ruby-based Dropbox clone that uses Git as a backend
  20. Gitosis is great, however I like Gitolite much better (ironically enough, hosted by GitHub - http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite ). Per branch permissions, and a much more intuitive project management.
    comment by ashchristopher · 2010-02-08 · in Bye Bye Github