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Gitolite creates and uses the following files and directories:
~/repositories
-- the actual (bare) repositories are here~/.gitolite.rc
-- configuration parameters that must be done directly on the server~/.gitolite
-- gitolite's "working" directory. This contains everything else that gitolite needs. (Warning: you're not supposed to fiddle with the files and directories within; instead, make changes in a clone of the gitolite-admin repository and push, and those appear magically here).
Once the install/setup is done, any (or all) of these may be moved
elsewhere and replaced by symlinks. The most common reason for
locating ~/repositories
somewhere else is disk space, but FHS
compliance could also be a reason.
In addition, the following are of interest:
~/.ssh
-- if you're using ssh (as opposed to http), since this is where theauthorized_keys
file is kept
You may want to backup the contents of ~/.gitolite/logs
if you care about
auditability etc.
A gitolite repo is just like a normal bare repo on any normal git server. There are a few extra files placed in the repo directory whose names start with "gl-", and there is also an update hook placed in the hooks subdirectory, but that's about it, for the most part.
In other words, you can treat a gitolite-managed repo just like any other bare repo as long as you leave those files alone.
The above list does not include the gitolite software itself.
Gitolite offers you 3 ways to install software. After cloning the gitolite
sources, run the install command in it with a -h
argument to see what they
are. Where the actual software is found depends on that.