Gitolite is an access control layer on top of git, which allows access control down to the branch level, including specifying who can and cannot rewind a given branch.
Gitolite lets you use a single user on a server to host many git repositories and provide access to many developers, without having to give them real userids on or shell access to the server. Authentication is most commonly done using sshd, but you can also use httpd if you prefer.
Gitolite can restrict who can read from (clone/fetch) or write to (push) a repository. It can also restrict who can push to what branch or tag, which is very important in a corporate environment.
Gitolite is developed by Sitaram Chamarty and released under GPLv2 at sitaramac/gitolite@github.
Gitolite is available in the FreeBSD ports tree as devel/gitolite (v3.x) and devel/gitolite2 (v2.x).
The hosted tarballs are made available for distribution packaging. The tarballs are made with this Makefile and are not FreeBSD specific.
Gitolite v3 documentation is available here. Gitolite v2 documentation is available here.
| tarball | SHA256 | Source Tag | FreeBSD Extra Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| gitolite-2.3.1.tar.gz | 53303fea0154914356830202d3de23f94682bab26197ead8ca05d58818c56e82 | v2.3.1 | Paths† |
| gitolite-3.5.1.tar.gz | b527e90ea6aa0f0d5496b3e520cc4a461b130a91b1b284ffee1f20865fada7cf | v3.5.1 | Paths† |
devel/gitolite updated to 3.5.1,1.
devel/gitolite and devel/gitolite2 have been updated to conform to the new OptionsNG framework.
Furthermore, github has changed its domain for gh-pages from github.com to github.io. All older ports will be unable to use the github MASTER_SITE.
devel/gitolite updated to 3.4,1.
devel/gitolite updated to 3.3,1.
devel/gitolite updated to 3.2,1.
devel/gitolite updated to 3.1,1.
A security vulnerability CVE-2012-4506 has been found in previous 3.x releases, discussed in the mailing list. All users of gitolite 3.x before 3.1 should update.
devel/gitolite updated to 3.04.
devel/gitolite updated to 3.03. devel/gitolite2 updated to 2.3.1
The gitolite port has been split into two ports: devel/gitolite for version 3 and devel/gitolite2 for version 2. gitolite 3 is a complete rewrite. Admins must take note of migrating issues from gitolite 2.
The FreeBSD port does a manual installation of the gitolite files to ensure FreeBSD compatability and adherance to hier(7). Optionally, the git user is created for use as the gitolite provider. The gitolite setup instructions are still required to setup a user as a gitolite provider.
Note: only the core features of gitolite are guaranteed to work on FreeBSD; any provided non-core features (e.g. hook examples, VREFs, mirroring) have not been examined for FreeBSD compatibility. Some may require additional tweaking such as path fixing.
src → libexec/gitolitesrc/lib → SITE_PERL (e.g. lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4)gitolite → bin/gitolitegl-install, gl-auth-commandsrc → libexec/gitoliteconf → share/gitolite/confhooks → share/gitolite/hooksgl-install, gl-auth-command → bin| tarball | SHA256 | Source Tag | FreeBSD Extra Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| gitolite-2.0.2.tar.gz | e3f69f069087aa7c09ae98d0e89b1758de69ee98133e721da325163b8dd9ebd2 | v2.0.2 | Paths† |
| gitolite-2.0.3.tar.gz | a5d4cf95c69d574a5f78268274acc414873006a279b7299576e3aeb8c2afae7c | v2.0.3 | Paths† |
| gitolite-2.1.tar.gz | b8c824f3772be3395f7b27bc9de9c93c7c4f2a1c7130095d8358775b2f7a39c5 | v2.1 | Paths† |
| gitolite-2.2.tar.gz | 42a24e1c32c24b327316a7cb1832088001d0e778e794b779aeb7fc309fb6549a | v2.2 | Paths† |
| gitolite-2.2.1.tar.gz | 86203768838d5309ddbf39ccdbc6d494e22060d577cfa480f4b5005cece996c7 | v2.2.1 | Paths† |
| gitolite-2.3.tar.gz | cc973f499194cbe7c9434479383547a172a41a97ee5230af6681785fc40c783b | v2.3 | Paths† |
| gitolite-2.3.1.tar.gz | 53303fea0154914356830202d3de23f94682bab26197ead8ca05d58818c56e82 | v2.3.1 | Paths† |
| gitolite-3.0.tar.gz | 4348c9ffe2be6a098765d78a75daacdbe2c67e15c9b97bcca41f3648e6addcd8 | v3.0 | Vulnerable†† FreeBSD compat issues fixed in v3.01. No port made. |
| gitolite-3.01.tar.gz | 5c0141eeab483dd3ebfcd153117492254b6f4f7d11b48907493f9054ee6c5088 | v3.01 | Vulnerable†† Paths† Tests require gls from sys/coreutils: v3.01-testing-fbsd.patch |
| gitolite-3.02.tar.gz | 376b902fa965f46d9e1922980df1d4d8bca175c80d507156dff970086513b545 | v3.02 | Vulnerable†† No port made. |
| gitolite-3.03.tar.gz | b3487fd99cc46a7be32a58f8a86a520fc0943814794cc56b5f83d803591737ca | v3.03 | Vulnerable†† Paths† Tests require gls from sys/coreutils: v3.03-testing-fbsd.patch |
| gitolite-3.04.tar.gz | 900dd144ddfa88cc21fadfef7652799ead78c1be52304506994307c448e6b618 | v3.04 | Vulnerable†† Paths† Tests require gls from sys/coreutils: v3.04-testing-fbsd.patch |
| gitolite-3.1.tar.gz | 36fc270c29e980f7217c203656373d1c44f73035fe18053163301cd10a4e0f04 | v3.1 | Paths† Tests require gls from sys/coreutils: v3.1-testing-fbsd.patch |
| gitolite-3.2.tar.gz | 62d56e3910b52d0ecb53d5962d4c919ede2c6c11283c3c845605bfc643e64ab8 | v3.2 | Paths† |
| gitolite-3.3.tar.gz | 39d6630dd0125505e9a4b2b1e3de474e1380182ba0cc73bec3e4c08e7f62d8f9 | v3.3 | Paths† |
| gitolite-3.4.tar.gz | eadf21918a0da274cb3ed31e6bb7c067155d452ad4b693529ed8fadf8f3dd372 | v3.4 | Paths† |
| gitolite-3.5.tar.gz | 01f90f71182e49c505e163bb91173d2ce24514a16090333f2a47903652fb2beb | v3.5 | Bug related to gitweb integration No port made |
| gitolite-3.5.1.tar.gz | b527e90ea6aa0f0d5496b3e520cc4a461b130a91b1b284ffee1f20865fada7cf | v3.5.1 | Paths† |
Some tests are dependent on git version for error strings and will fail.
†Default perl path in FreeBSD is /usr/local/bin/perl. Default bash path in FreeBSD is /usr/local/bin/bash.
††A security vulnerability CVE-2012-4506 has been found in gitolite 3.x < 3.1 as announced on the mailing list.
Contact milki for questions concerning the FreeBSD gitolite ports or the hosted tarballs and patches here. Visit us at #gitolite@freenode and #git@freenode for general help.