gitosis vs gitolite?

I am looking for installing a git server to share projects with my team. I don't want to create a user account on the server with SSH access for each developer that needs a git access. It seems there is two concurrent solutions that cover this issue : gitosis & gitolite.

I could not find any comparison between both solutions. What are the main differences between them? Are there other similar solution?

Solution

I am looking for installing a git server to share projects with my team.

You can just use git.

To have a git server the only thing you need on the remote server is git. If you don't require fine-grained permissions (sharing with only your team suggests that's a possibility) or any extra features, you don't need gitolite, or similar.

The no-install solution

If git is available on the remote server, you can do what you're asking right now, without doing anything

ssh [user@]server
cd repos/are/here/
mkdir project.git
cd project.git
git init --bare

Locally:

cd projects/are/here/project
git remote add origin [user@]server:repos/are/here/project.git
git push -u origin master

Setting up a git server is easy.

If you want to do things with a dedicated git user, the docs for setting up a git server are short - because it really is quite easy to do.

In summary:

Install git
Create a user named git
Add your and your team's public keys to the git user's .ssh/authorized_keys file
Change the git user's shell to be git-shell
Create repos on the server
start git pull/pushing to [email protected]

The only difference between using a dedicated git user and not, is that if you setup the git user to use git-shell it won't allow itself to do anything else. In terms of acting as a git server though, it's identical to the no-install solution