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Gitosis Arguments to command look dangerous

Dealing with non-English languages, you might come across a couple of issues caused by special characters. Even gitosis has its limitations in thisĀ area. One of the error messages caused by special characters is: “Arguments to command look dangerous”. When a … Continue reading

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Gitosis Unsafe SSH username in keyfile

While configuring and using Gitosis you will probably see the following error sooner or later. This error will appear immediately when changed configuration is pushed to the gitosis-admin repository. With this error, the reported user keys are not provisioned properly … Continue reading

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Git repository cluster setup – Part 2

A git cluster with more then two servers with the approach described in Git repository cluster setup will increase the time you need to push changes to the cluster. This is because of the mirroring back. To solve this a more advanced version of the script is needed to avoid that the mirror-server would try to mirror the changes back to the master-server. Continue reading

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Git repository cluster setup

When you have gitosis and a number of repositories installed on a server and need to move them to another server or you want to build a cluster to have more then one server having serving the repository. This will describe how I solved this with my gitosis repositories. Continue reading

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Setup gitosis to manage git repositories

With git you can have a repository on your client working independently and even not having any remote repository. But if you wane share your work with others, a remote repository will be needed. Such a remote repository can be easy set up. Continue reading

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