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{{WorkInProgressNeedsUpdate}} '''NOTE:''' There is a [http://www.amahi.org/apps/gitweb one-click app] currently in ALPHA being tested.
[http://git-scm.com/ Git] is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do. Coupled with [http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/GitWeb%20repository%20browser Gitweb], provides a web interface for browsing your project.
This tutorial will show you how to install, create a repo, and browse that repo on your HDA.
<li>[[Open_Terminal_as_root|Open a terminal as root]] user and do the following:
<li>Install dependencies
<li>Look for the ''####-gitweb.conf'' in '''/etc/httpd/conf.d''' (#### is some number, i.e. 1000) file and open it in your favorite editor. Add text after '''ServerAlias''' line
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^git$ git/ [R]
DirectoryIndex gitweb.cgi
SetEnv GITWEB_CONFIG "/etc/gitweb.conf"
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi}}</pre></li>
<li>Create web page to browse repository</li>
echo '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
</BODY>
</HTML>' > html/index.html
chown apache.users html/index.html}}</pre></li>
</ol>
<li>Add user
<li>Set directory permissions
chown -R git:git git
chmod 755 git}}/</pre></li>
<li>Create '''/etc/init.d/git''' file and add the following
<nowiki>#</nowiki>
<nowiki>#</nowiki> Startup/shutdown script for Git Daemon
esac
exit $RETVAL}}</pre></li>
<li>Set init script to run
git init test
cd /var/cache/git/test</pre></li><li>Add test file and a short description and test file{{Code|echo "test repo" > description}}</lipre>echo 'test' > README
git add README
git commit -a -m "initial README file"}}</pre></li><li>Create local repository<pre>cd /var/cache/git/git clone test test.gitcd test.gitgit push origin master</pre></li><li>Edit '''/var/cache/git/test/.git/config''' and add the following at the bottom(change '''MyHDA''' as desired){{Text|Text=<pre>[gitweb] owner = Your Name}}MyHDA</pre></li>
<li>Add to bottom of '''/etc/gitweb.conf''' file
$feature{'pickaxe'}{'default'} = [undef];
$feature{'search'}{'default'} = [undef];
$feature{'pathinfo'}{'default'} = [1];
$my_uri = "http://gitweb/git/";
$home_link = "http://gitweb/git/;"}}</pre></li>
<li>Copy web files and set permissions
</ul>
==Complete==
That is it. Navigate to <nowiki>http://gitweb/git</nowiki> to browse the newly created repository.
==Optional==
You can add the Amahi repo by doing the following:
<pre>cd /var/cache/git
git clone git://git.amahi.org/amahi.git</pre>
==References==
[http://www.kutukupret.com/2010/03/26/hosting-your-own-git-repository-on-fedora-12/ Hosting your own Git Repository on Fedora 12]
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