migrating from gitosis to gitolite

[2012-04-09] Modified for gitolite g3. These instructions have not really been tested with g3, but are expected to work.

Migrating from gitosis to gitolite is fairly easy, because the basic design is the same.

There's only one thing that might trip up people: the userid. Gitosis uses gitosis. Gitolite can use any userid you want; most of the documentation uses git, while DEB/RPM packages use gitolite.

Here are the steps on the server:

Now, log off the server and get back to the client. All subsequent instructions are to be read as "on gitolite admin's workstation".