help for emergencies


"Don't Panic!"


#lost-key lost admin key/access

If you lost your gitolite admin key or access, here's what you do. We'll assume your username is 'alice'.

That's it; the new alice.pub file replaces whatever existed in the repo before.

#bypass bypassing gitolite

You may have lost access because of a conf file error, in which case the above trick won't help. What you want is to make changes to the repo (or perhaps just rewind) and push that. Here's how to do that:

NOTE: gitolite does no access checking when you do this!

#clean cleaning out a botched install

If you've read the [files involved in gitolite][files] page, you probably know the answer, but here's a list of files you should blow away.

#ce common errors

#ue uncommon errors

#ngp things that are not gitolite problems

There are several things that appear to be gitolite problems but are not. I cannot help with most of these (although the good folks on irc or the mailing list -- see [contact][] -- might be able to; they certainly appear to have a lot more patience than I do, bless 'em!)