Gitolite is a tool used for managing Git repositories. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing Gitolite on OpenSUSE latest.
Before proceeding with the installation, make sure that you have:
The first step is to install Git on your OpenSUSE system. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo zypper install git
Now, we will install Gitolite on our OpenSUSE system. For this, we will use the Git package manager. Follow these steps:
git clone https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite.git
sudo ./install -ln /usr/local/bin
sudo -H -u gitolite3 gitolite setup -pk /path/to/user/sshPubKey.pub
In the above command, replace /path/to/user/sshPubKey.pub with the path to the SSH public key for the user who will be managing Gitolite.
/home/gitolite3/repositories.Congratulations! You have successfully installed Gitolite on your OpenSUSE system.
Once Gitolite is installed, we can configure it to suit our requirements. For this, we need to edit the configuration file gitolite.conf, which is located at /home/gitolite3/.gitolite.
We can use any text editor of our choice to edit the file. The configuration file is written in the Perl programming language.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Gitolite on OpenSUSE latest. We also learned how to configure Gitolite to suit our requirements. Gitolite is a powerful tool for managing Git repositories, and its installation on OpenSUSE is straightforward.
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