Local working version of Gitolite for Apache DocumentRoot

Question

I have a system setup with git and guitarolite. Everything works well, except that I want my structure to be like this:

Local Environment → Development Server → Production Server

I have a repo setup on a dev server and it has been successfully cloned to a local environment. Now I need a working copy of the local file system on the development server, but I'm not sure how to do this with gitolit.

git clone /home/gitolote/repositories/myrepo.git 

It works fine until I try to push / pull, and at that moment I get the following:

 remote: ENV GL_RC not set remote: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at hooks/update line 20. remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master 

Any ideas on how to do this with guitarite?

Answer 1

You use the local protocol for your clone, which means that you completely bypass the gitolit (the gitolit script is invoked through the forced ssh command ).

You must make a second clone on your development server using a gitolite-compatible address, for example:

 git clone git@gitoliteserver :myrepo.git 

The second repo could push / bring to / from the gitolite server, providing a "working copy of the local file system" on the development server that you are after.

Answer 2

If you need to use the local protocol , you only need to set the GL_BYPASS_UPDATE_HOOK environment GL_BYPASS_UPDATE_HOOK to 1 :

 gorgo@somegitoliteserver :~/testing$ GL_BYPASS_UPDATE_HOOK=1 git push Counting objects: 3, done. Delta compression using up to 3 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. Writing objects: 100% (2/2), 234 bytes, done. Total 2 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) Unpacking objects: 100% (2/2), done. To file:///home/gitolite/repositories/testing.git/ 96be337..ab5ca6d master -> master