gitosis and symlink requirement

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Hello Tommi,

I just tried to setup gitosis on a VirtualBox virtual machine with guest OS Ubuntu 8.10 Intredid Server (amd64). However, the installation fails with the following stacktrace:

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/git/repositories/gitosis- admin.git/ Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/git/repositories/ gitosis-admin.git/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gitosis-init", line 8, in <module>
load_entry_point('gitosis==0.2', 'console_scripts', 'gitosis- init')() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/ gitosis/app.py", line 24, in run
    return app.main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/ gitosis/app.py", line 38, in main
    self.handle_args(parser, cfg, options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/ gitosis/init.py", line 142, in handle_args
    symlink_config(git_dir=admin_repository)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/ gitosis/init.py", line 64, in symlink_config
    tmp,
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

I found the rootcause: I run /home/git on a VirtualBox Shared Folder. I use this setup since all my Shared Folders of the host OS are in a backup plan. The git home folder is mounted using the vboxsf file system type, which does not support symbolic links:

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/818

Is there a possibility of updating gitosis so the symlinking is not needed?

Ringo De Smet

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