Git

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Developer / Maintainer

Marco Hess

Status

As of 2 Feb 2015, RPM's are available from my personal repository (see below) for SME8 (Version 1.0) and SME9 (Version 1.1) in the noarch part of my repository. Both versions have been validated on a latest version of SME8 and SME9. Feedback will be appreciated.

A request has been put in to upload the RPM's to the smecontribs repository in the near future.

Description

This is a place holder for a Git integration and collaboration contrib for SME server. This contrib turns your SME8 or SME9 server into an easy to manage centralised 'git' repository server. Access is with HTTPS and fine grained access permissions are handled through the SME users and groups. Web viewing is provided with the optional gitweb contrib and its GitHub like theme.

Have a look http://through-ip.com/git for a live instance of this contrib.

The current feature list include:

• Create & manage centralised git repositories through the SME server-manager panel.
• Per repository network access configurable for either 'Local network Only' or 'Internet'.
• Repositories accessed over HTTP/HTTPS for easy remote access through firewalls.
• Access permissions are based on your SME server users and groups configuration.
• Git PULL and PUSH permissions can be controlled separately.
• Support for Anonymous access PULL and/or PUSH.
• Separate name space for Git repositories using /git as a prefix (i.e. the git repository names are independent of ibays and other resources on the server).
• Automatic email notification of push operations to all users that have either pull or push access to that repository.
• Web viewing of repositories through gitweb with full view access to local users, but from the internet only the anonymous accessible repositories or with a login, those repositories that that user has permissions for.
• Special GitHub style theme for gitweb viewer (optionally, but highly recommended).
• Gravatars support in the gitweb web view.
• Automatic markdown of README.md into README.html and shown in gitweb repository summary.

Installation

There are now RPMs available from my personal repository that can be found at

SME8: http://through-ip.com/packages/smeserver/i386/repoview/

SME9: http://through-ip.com/packages/smeserver/noarch/repoview/

Source RPMs are also available, as well as cloning with Git from either:

http://through-ip.com/git

or from GitHub:

1. https://github.com/MarcoHess/smeserver-git/tree/smeserver-git
2. https://github.com/MarcoHess/smeserver-git/tree/smeserver-gitweb
3. https://github.com/MarcoHess/smeserver-git/tree/smeserver-gitweb-theme

Through IP Repositpory

The following command will configure the Through-IP repository on SME Server.

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set through-ip repository \
BaseURL http://through-ip.com/packages/smeserver/i386/ \
Name 'Through IP Pty. Ltd.' \
EnableGroups yes \
Visible yes \
GPGCheck no \
status disabled

After adding it to the database we have to update the changes to the configuration file:

signal-event yum-modify

Dag Repositpory

The Git packages comes from the Dag repository. Check the instructions on that wiki page and make sure you use the settings matching your server (either SME8 or SME9).

Install the SME Server Git RPM's

yum --enablerepo=through-ip --enablerepo=dag install smeserver-git smeserver-gitweb smeserver-gitweb-theme

Subversion conflict with smeserver-subversion

The SME Server Subversion contribs currently has a small conflict in the subversion RPM's that are used for the smeserver-subversion (version 1.6.15 from smecontribs) and smeserver-git (vesion 1.6.11 from dag) contribs whereby the smecontribs repository does not have the subversion-perl package:

As a workaround both contribs can be installed together:

1. Remove the smeserver-subversion and subversion rpms
2. Install smeserver-git as above.
3. Install smeserver-subversion with the steps below:

wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/subversion/subversion-perl-1.6.15-0.1.el5.rfx.i386.rpm
yum localinstall subversion-perl-1.6.15-0.1.el5.rfx.i386.rpm install smeserver-subversion --enablerepo=smecontribs

Notes on using SME Server Git

Git client needs to ignore self signed SSL certificates

The Git client validates the HTTP SSL security certificate when accessing a repository. With the self signed certificates typical on SME servers, you will get an error like certificate verify failed when accessing the Git repository. You can avoid this problem by by setting the http sslVerify flag to false. Using a command line, you can do this in your Git client as follows:

git config --global http.sslVerify false

In a git config file, this looks like:

[http]
    sslVerify = false

Feedback

I welcome any feedback on this contrib for bugs, features or assistance (e.g. turning it into an RPM). Email me at the address found at the top of this page.

Additional information on git

More information about Git can be found on http://git-scm.com/.

Bug Reporting & Tracking

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-git, smeserver-gitweb or smeserver-gitweb-theme component or use these links: smeserver-git , smeserver-gitweb , smeserver-gitweb-theme

Below is an overview of the current issues for these contribs:

smeserver-git

"No open bugs found."

smeserver-gitweb

"No open bugs found."

smeserver-gitweb-theme

"No open bugs found."

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