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Gitblit Setup

This document provides instructions for setting up GitBlit, a self-hosted Git management solution, on a Linux server and configuring a client workspace on a Windows developer machine. The steps include installing Java and Tomcat on the Linux server, deploying the GitBlit WAR file, creating a test repository, and adding a user. On the Windows client, the steps cover installing Git, generating an SSH key, adding the public key to the user's GitBlit profile, and cloning/pushing to the test repository.

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Gitblit Setup

This document provides instructions for setting up GitBlit, a self-hosted Git management solution, on a Linux server and configuring a client workspace on a Windows developer machine. The steps include installing Java and Tomcat on the Linux server, deploying the GitBlit WAR file, creating a test repository, and adding a user. On the Windows client, the steps cover installing Git, generating an SSH key, adding the public key to the user's GitBlit profile, and cloning/pushing to the test repository.

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****** GitBlit Setup ****

Server Setup on Linux machine


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1. Download the gitblit war file from below link
http://dl.bintray.com/gitblit/releases/gitblit-1.6.2.war

Downlaod JDK from below link and extract at root location (/root/jdk1.7)
http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u79-b15/jdk-7u79-linux-i586.tar.gz

2. Setup a Tomcat app server on linux machine ( Tomcat7)


-Download jdk1.7 from oracle site( google it you will get)
-Download tomcat from below link
http://apache.arvixe.com/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.62/bin/apache-tomcat-
7.0.62.tar.gz
-Extract the tar.gz file with below command at /root/ lcoation
- $tar -zxvf apache-tomcat-7.0.62.tar.gz
- The above command will create a directory apache-tomcat-7.0.62, cd to this
directory
cd /root/apache-tomcat-7.0.62/bin
- open catalina.sh file in this location ( /root/apache-tomcat-
7.0.62/bin/catalina.sh)
add JAVA_HOME at starting of the line as shown below
JAVA_HOME="/root/jdk1.7"

3. Copy the downloaded gitblit.war file to tomcat webapps location


$cp gitblit.war /root/apache-tomcat-7.0.62/webapps/
4. Restart tomcat server
$cd /root/apache-tomcat-7.0.62/bin
$./startup.sh

5. Access the gitblit from browser with an admin user


http://192.168.146.129:8080/gitblit (admin/admin)

6. Create a repository with README initial commit

7. Create the users from dashboard by clicking on admin user link -> users option
create a user harry and password harry, then under permisisons tab provide
access to the respective repo and respectvie access
ex:
gitrepo --> RW ( push and pull access)

Client setup on developer machine


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1. Download git client from below link and install it in your windows desktop
http://git-scm.com/download/win
2. Install it as it is, how you generally install any windows msi/exe files

3. open git bash from start program and create a dir at your home location on
gitbash
C:\Users\harry>mkdir .ssh
cd .ssh
Enter below command and just enter 3 times
ssh-keygen -t rsa
This will create three files under .ssh diretory, open id_rsa.pub file and copy
the public key then add the sam through gitblit web UI under your profile sections
4. Click on harry user name on gitblit dashboard, select ssh keys option then add
above copied public key there.
5. Now clone the repo to your machine by running below command to create local
repo/workspace

git config --global user.name "harry"


git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

git clone ssh://[email protected]:29418/repo1.git


cd repo1
touch Hello.txt
git add Hello.txt
git commit -m"sample commit"
git push origin master

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