Gitolite

The installation of gitolite is relatively easy on alpine Linux. Bellow is the method to install gitolite on a user account.

1. Log into root user

2. apk add perl bash git nano

3. adduser -s /bin/bash -S git

4. su - git

5. On your local machine make a ssh key

   ssh-keygen -t myname.pub

6. Next run

   scp ~/.ssh/myname.pub git@example.com:myname.pub

   on your local machine
7. On the remote machine type

   git clone git://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite

8. gitolite/src/gl-system-install

9. you will receive an error message, to fix add the path it gives you in a new file called .bash_profile.

   nano /home/git/.bash_profile

10. add the line and save Ctrl+X
11. logout and then back into the git user

12. gl-setup myname.pub

13. on your local machine you can now

    git clone git@example.com:gitolite-admin

14. on your local machine you can now edit your config files then commit them and push them back to the server

Im a brand new alpine user and was able to get it working using the above instructions, hope this will help someone else!