On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Mohit Aron <mohit.aron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> That was the main reason I wrote gitolite >> (http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite), though now it does a heck of a >> lot more than just that. >> > > That's great. You might want to consider making it a deb package > that's available from one of the Ubuntu/Debian repositories. An apt > search on Ubuntu 9.10 doesn't reveal it. I usually shy away from > installing software on my machines that is not automatically managed. There are a couple of answers to this: (1) I'm not really a debian guy, and definitely not ubuntu. My distro of choice for nearly 10 years has been Mandriva :-) (2) gitolite's second reason for existence [after the one in this thread] is the need to install something on machines where you do *not* have root, can't create another user, etc etc. There was a Solaris 9 on which I couldn't install python-setuptools, and so no gitosis :-( Regardless of all that, someone is working on it... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550817 I respect your inclination to shy away; I do the same for pretty much everything except git itself and one or two others. But if you don't mind looking through the documentation (browse it directly on github; it'll render the markdown properly, though the plain text is quite readable too), you may be able to better decide if you want to use it despite this limitation. Regards, Sita -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html