From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:59:41 GMT
Subject: Re: zealous git convert determined to set up git server
Message-ID: <4E72673D.7040400@diamand.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAOZxsTqtW=DD7zFwQLjknJR8g0nnh0WPUPna6_np4bVoGnSntQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 15/09/11 12:38, Joshua Stoutenburg wrote:
> Breaking away from previous conversation "Anybody home?"
>
> I totally didn't see "The Git Community Book".  There's no link for it
> where I was looking: http://git-scm.com/documentation
>
> As for setting up a work station, I found a pretty good guide at GitHub:
> Windows: http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/
> Linux: http://help.github.com/linux-set-up-git/
>
> Question 1: With both "Pro Git" and "The Git Community Book", has
> anybody noticed any major discrepancies between the pdf and online
> versions?  I'd like to place the pdf versions on my mobile device for
> travel reading.
>
> Question 2: It seems gitolite is the popular choice for git user
> management.  Any reason why?

I use it. Seems good to me:

- Very easy to install (might just be apt-get install gitolite)
- Git users don't need to have real user accounts on the server machine
- Can do quite sophisticated things with permissions


>
> Question 3: So, Gitorious is more than just a repository hosting
> website?  It's also an open source repository hosting platform, which
> powers the Gitorious website?  That's pretty cool.
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