on 13/10/09 14:33 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:15:24AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > >> Description : standalone, souped-up version of gitosis >> >> Gitolite is a rewrite of gitosis, with a completely different config >> file that allows (at last!) access control down to the branch level, >> including specifying who can and cannot rewind a given branch. >> > > /me playing devil's attorney role > > What if one has no idea of what "gitosis" is? For such a person, the > above description will be close to meaningless. I suggest expanding in a > couple of words what gitosis is, turning the reference to it as > something like "similar to gitosis". >
Gitosis (and therefore Gitolite) is an ssh-based gatekeeper for a server that hosts many git repos, and that needs access control of some sort. Without gitosis/gitolite, each developer needing to push to one of the repositories hosted will need a (Unix) userid and password on that server; gitosis/gitolite let you do that just using ssh public keys tied to a single, common, user that hosts all the repositories. Gitolite goes further than gitosis. Its primary target is corporate environments where the ability to restrict who can push to what branch is also important. Over the past few weeks it has grown a bit beyond that primary reason, and acquired several other neat features described in the main README. > Thanks for your packaging work! > Cheers. > > -- Sitaram Chamarty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
