Doesn't allow Gitolite Repositories

[joshuafcole]

Gitolite (a git authentication system) repositories take the format "ssh://example.com**:my-repo name" rather than "ssh://example.com/**my-repo name" The GUI automatically prepends the folder name with a slash, which makes adding a gitolite repository impossible. I don't mind if the workaround is non-GUI, but I cannot seem to find a workaround period. Seriously looking forward to using this. Hope you can take a look at it soon.

[lgordon]

I was trying to figure out how to use gitolite on a non-standard port since the colon is being used to reference the repo and I think this thread might have the solution to the problem here:

http://groups.google.com/group/gitolite/browse_thread/thread/4a36135f4e730fb7?pli=1

as a side note gitolite+gitweb seems like a good authentication+web interface for sparkleshare

[joshuafcole]

Great call Igordon. Guess I should've tested more extensively before raising the warning flag! And here I forked for nothing...

[hbons]

So what was the solution in the end? Did you leave out the ":"?

[joshuafcole]

Turns out that if you use an explicit SSH url to reference the git repo, you can use slash notation just like a normal repo!

[hbons]

Ok, just asking because if you did some kind of workaround it's better to fix it in sparkles. Good that it works. :)

[jeff-h]

Unfortunately this solution doesn't work for me. My gitolite repos only respond at a url such as username@server:repo.git not ssh://username@server/home/username/repositories/repo.git.

When I try the latter, it seems to work, but the console spits out this:

16/06/11 10:51:56 PM [0x0-0x11e11e].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[69574] 22:51:56 [Cmd] /opt/local/bin/git clone "ssh://username@server/home/username/repositories/repo.git" "/Users/jeffh/SparkleShare/.tmp/repo"
16/06/11 10:52:02 PM [0x0-0x11e11e].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[69574] R access for home/username/repositories/repo DENIED to jeff
16/06/11 10:52:02 PM [0x0-0x11e11e].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[69574](Or there may be no repository at the given path. Did you spell it correctly?)
16/06/11 10:52:02 PM [0x0-0x11e11e].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[69574] fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
16/06/11 10:52:02 PM [0x0-0x11e11e].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[69574] 22:52:02 [Git] Exit code 128
16/06/11 10:52:02 PM [0x0-0x11e11e].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[69574] 22:52:02 [Fetcher] Failed

[jeff-h]

A little more info on this;

gitolite does NOT appear to allow explicit ssh:// protocol connections ie on the commandline:

This works:
git clone username@server:repo.git

This does not:
git clone ssh://username@server/some/path/repositories/repo.git

I think the latter does authenticate with SSH but gitolite does not make the correct connection to the appropriate "virtual gitolite user", thus failing gitolite's repository permissions system.

At the end of the day I got this working by:

— manually checking out my repo from the terminal into my sparkleshare folder using the syntax gitolite likes:

git clone username@server:repo.git

— hand-modified the .config/sparkleshare/config.xml file, adding the following:

  <folder>
    <name>repofoldername</name>
    <url>[email protected]/home/user/repositories/reponame.git</url>
    <backend>Git</backend>
  </folder>

I also tried the following instead of the above, which also seems to work fine:

  <folder>
    <name>repofoldername</name>
    <url>[email protected]:reponame.git</url>
    <backend>Git</backend>
  </folder>

Ultimately my conclusion is that it would be ideal if sparkleshare could allow a more flexible entry of the server details, at the very least not presuming ssh:// as it appears to at present and perhaps ideally not mandating the / between the server and the repository name.

ps thanks for the awesome work on sparkleshare... loving it :)

[joshuafcole]

Unless something major has changed without me noticing it, this may be an issue with the way you defined your repository in your conf. It still seems to work fine with me, and I'm running both more or less vanilla.

[wimh]

@test66 If this works:

git clone username@server:repo.git

Can you also check if the following command works:

git clone ssh://username@server/~/repo.git

(note the ~ in the url)

The server:repo.git syntax is explicit supported by git: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-clone.html#URLS

[jeff-h]

@joshuafcole: "may be an issue with the way you defined your repository in your conf" — do you mean my gitolite config? If so, I'm not aware of anything unusual I could even be doing in there; my repos are defined like:

repo    reponame
    RW jeff

If you mean my Sparkleshare config, it's entirely possible I haven't defined the XML config properly but that's really the essence of this issue; to request that the GUI allow entry of the gitolite-format server details.

@wimh — here's what I got:

jeffh$ git clone ssh://username@server/~/reponame.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/jeffh/Desktop/reponame/.git/
bad command: git-upload-pack '~/reponame.git'
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

[joshuafcole]

Not sure if it'd help, but try RW+. + gives a few special permissions like
the ability to perform nonFFWs and such. I tend to give myself full
permission to my repo so that's the only differentiating factor I can see
between my config and yours. I do agree that it shouldn't be necessary
though.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:51 PM, test66 <
[email protected]>wrote:

@joshuafcole: "may be an issue with the way you defined your repository in
your conf" do you mean my gitolite config? If so, I'm not aware of
anything unusual I could even be doing in there; my repos are defined like:

repo reponame
RW jeff

If you mean my Sparkleshare config, it's entirely possible I haven't
defined the XML config properly but that's really the essence of this issue;
to request that the GUI allow entry of the gitolite-format server details.

@wimh here's what I got:

jeffh$ git clone ssh://username@server//reponame.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/jeffh/Desktop/reponame/.git/
bad command: git-upload-pack '/reponame.git'
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

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[jeff-h]

Tried that (RW+) with a fresh repo and no luck, same result. As far as I can see, it's simply not possible for me to enter the details of my gitolite-configured repository into Sparkleshare.

[wimh]

I have setup Gitolite on windows for some testing.

I see gitolite is very picky on the syntax. These two commands work:

git ls-remote git@localhost:test1
git ls-remote ssh://git@localhost/test1

But everything else I tried does not work, including these simular do not work:

git ls-remote ssh://git@localhost:test1
git ls-remote git@localhost/test1

[jeff-h]

@wimh, thanks for this; you have an ssh:// syntax above that I haven't tried previously, and it works for me with Sparkle! Since Sparkleshare presumes ssh:// in the url (check the ~/.config/sparkleshare/config.xml file to see this) my experience would suggest that the only syntax to add a gitolite repo to Sparkleshare is:

ssh://user@server/repo

...where repo is your gitolite repo with or without the .git on the end

Thus the values you'd put into Sparkleshare "Add remote folder..." would be:
Address:// user@server
Foldername: reponame (with or without .git on the end)

Seems simple stated this way but I was mislead due to other threads I read while working this out that seemed to state you need the full server path to the repo if you are using the ssh:// protocol. This appears not to be the case. I had been confused as I presumed others had a simpler server directory structure (my gitolite server is on a shared host, thus is under username/repositories/)

Thanks all who added to this thread and helped me get this working!

[hbons]

Glad it worked. I'll reopen this so that it goes into the documentation.

[nic-bertino]

Hmmm.. I'm testing sparkle on my Gitolite VM and not having any luck. Here's the folder from my config.xml:

sparkle gitolite/sparkle Git

ssh://gitolite/sparkle works for me in terminal if I use git clone, so I'm not quite sure what the issue is. Here's a dump from the console:

6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] Identity added: (snip)
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] 21:04:48 [Cmd] /usr/bin/git log -1 --format=%H
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] 21:04:48 [Cmd] /usr/bin/git rev-list --reverse HEAD
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: startIndex + length > this.length
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] Parameter name: length
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] at System.String.Substring (Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) [0x00000] in :0
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] at SparkleLib.SparkleRepoGit.get_Identifier () [0x00000] in :0
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] at SparkleLib.SparkleRepoBase.CreateListener () [0x00000] in :0
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] at SparkleLib.SparkleRepoBase..ctor (System.String path, SparkleLib.SparkleBackend backend) [0x00000] in :0
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] at SparkleLib.SparkleRepoGit..ctor (System.String path, SparkleLib.SparkleBackend backend) [0x00000] in :0
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] at SparkleShare.SparkleController.AddRepository (System.String folder_path) [0x00000] in :0
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] at SparkleShare.SparkleController.PopulateRepositories () [0x00000] in :0
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM [0x0-0x466466].org.sparkleshare.sparkleshare[87022] at System.Threading.Thread.StartUnsafe () [0x00000] in :0
6/28/11 9:04:48 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502199 Exited with exit code: 1

Where is it attempting to run /usr/bin/git log? Remotely? I'll have a pile of documentation ready when this is done :)

[lgordon]

Can someone who has gotten gitolite+sparkleshare working create a small wiki article about how to do it?

[jeff-h]

I've made a small start at https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki/Using-Gitolite-repositories-with-Sparkleshare but I'm not sure how to move it into the appropriate section on https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki — can someone do that for me?

[hbons]

@jeff-h done