Re: Bugs in Gitosis

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 29, 2010, 00:02 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTik+CcuAtB=t5GgP9C-WrJRZt-LDNs3wUChhKTuz@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <26E9B811E137AB4B95200FD4C950886BA9665E50@orsmsx507.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Olsen, Alan R <alan.r.olsen@intel.com> wrote:

> Does gitolite play well with Gerrit? I note in the docs that it does not react well to files under its control being messed with.

For the real reason I added that into the docs, see http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/10289c6d6494e7aa4204dfe29afec7535c1aa1a2

If <any other software> wants to add *other* files into repos that gitolite does not need, that is perfectly fine. Gitolite does not expect to be "sole control", but just "don't mess with my stuff and we'll get along fine".

However, I wasn't aware that it is even *possible* to run gerrit and gitolite together. Gerrit has its own customised ssh daemon, its own customised "git", and so on.

I also fail to understand why you need gitolite if you're using gerrit. I believe gerrit can do all the access control that gitolite can do. See http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/blob/pu/contrib/gerrit.mkd for a comparision

regards

sitaram