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I was wondering if it was possible to configure gitolite to let anybody clone a repository without having to do the whole public key song and dance.

Obviously I don't want people to be able to change the repo without a key first.

Chris
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There are two options for public Git access:

  1. Git protocol, handled by git daemon:

    git daemon --base-path /srv/git

    If you run git daemon with --base-path /srv/git on example.com, then if you later try to pull git://example.com/hello.git, git daemon will interpret the path as /srv/git/hello.git.

    For multiple "vhosts", --interpolated-path /srv/git/%H/%D would map the same to /srv/git/example.com/hello.git.

    The --user-path option gives "userdir"-like translation of git://example.com/~user/hello.git to /home/user/hello.git.

    You can run git daemon from xinetd, or as a background daemon using the --detach option (sudo -u nobody git daemon --detach <other options>).

  2. Smart HTTP, which requires a web server: instructions on Pro Git

    This is a bit more complicated to set up, but crosses proxies and firewalls more easily (which may be an advantage in certain environments).

    It is possible to push over HTTP too – make sure you don't accidentally enable that.

grawity
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