Re: zealous git convert determined to set up git server

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2011, 02:45 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_jgNxQLUv89pSpBjV964MRG=9AboUoxLcndq=6MvMNcWw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201109170039.22954.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Joshua Stoutenburg wrote:
>> 2011/9/15 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:

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>> Question 2: It seems gitolite is the popular choice for git user
>> management.  Any reason why?
>
> From Gitosis and Gitolite, both git repository management tools, Gitosis
> requires setuptools beside Python, and looks like it is not developed
> anymore, while Gitolite (which started as rewrite of Gitosis in Perl)
> requires only Perl and is actively developed.
>
> Nb. even Gitosis author recommends Gitolite:
> http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way
>
>  Update (12-12-2010): For additional features not present in gitosis,
>  check out gitolite.

Minor correction. That blog is someone else's (a friend of the gitosis author). I asked him to add that text because we constantly had (still have) people land up on #git asking for help but neither he nor the author are active in git-land anymore and won't answer questions and no one else was willing to pick up the slack.

Fortunately he agreed, and was gracious enough to put that in, although I would have preferred wording that includes the word "unsupported" (IMO lack of support is a bigger reason than lack of features).