We are a group of developers working on an android project. I want to set up a GIT repository from my Ubuntu 14.04 machne. I followed the steps outlined here- https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/git.html I have successfully set up a gitolite server. I have progressed to switching to the git user and import the administrator's key into gitolite.However I get stuck up while executing the following command -
git clone git@$IP_ADDRESS:gitolite-admin.git
The system asks me for a GIT password. I need to know how to get the GIT password.
Thanks in advance.
The Gitolite configuration section assumes that the current user is the repository administrator.
So make sure that the user doing git clone git@$IP_ADDRESS:gitolite-admin.git has the private and public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub), with the public one being the one used /tmp/$(whoami).pub when doing the gitolite setup.
Note that the documentation uses 'gl-setup', which is for gitolite v2 (package gitolite for trusty).
Gitolite v2 is obsolete: use the latest clone of sitaramc/gitolite, and the setup process described here (to be done as the git user).
(or use the package gitolite3 for trusty)