Gitolite

Manual Setup

The installation of Gitolite is relatively easy on Alpine Linux. Below 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 this, add the path it gives you in a new file called .bash_profile.

10. nano /home/git/.bash_profile

11. Add the line and save - Ctrl+X.
12. Logout and then log back into the git user

13. gl-setup myname.pub

14. On your local machine you can now

    git clone git@example.com:gitolite-admin

15. On your local machine you can now edit your config files, commit them, and push them back to the server.

I'm a brand new Alpine user and was able to get it working using the above instructions. Hope this will help someone else!