gitolite

SSH-based gatekeeper for git repositories

Gitolite is an SSH-based gatekeeper providing access control for a server that hosts many git repositories. Without gitolite, each developer needing to push to one of the repositories hosted would need a user account on that server; gitolite lets you do that just using SSH public keys tied to a single, common, user that hosts all the repositories. Gitolite can restrict who can read (clone/fetch) from or write (push) to a repository, and who can push to what branch or tag - an important issue in corporate environments. Other features include: * access control by branch-name or by modified file/directory; * per-developer "personal namespace" prefixes; * simple but powerful configuration file syntax (with validation); * config files (and authority for maintaining them) can be split; * easy integration with gitweb; * comprehensive logging; * easy migration from gitosis.