Services/VCS

Service 'VCS'

Description	A few VCS tools are available to DC users.
Prerequisite	Write access is currently limited to people having a shell account. No prerequisite for read access.
Account	Global (registration required)	IPv6 Ready	Yes
Security Notes	This service is secure.

Access

Use the following URL to access public repositories:

https://vcs.duckcorp.org/

Various VCS are possible: git, Mercurial, SVN, Bazaar…

If you have shell access, public repositories are also available in /srv/vcs/ on vcs.duckcorp.org

Managing a Repository

If you have shell access:

• ask an administrator if you need a space for public repositories
• you can create private repositories at will in your home directory
• ask an administrator if you need a project-specific space in /srv/projects/ on vcs.duckcorp.org to store the project private repositories in it

For the following steps, ask an administrator if you don't have shell access.

Git

A Git repository needs to be a bare repository, created like this:

mkdir myrepo.git
cd myrepo.git
git init --bare

A public repository should have a proper short description defined. Either edit the description file into the bare repository. Also, make sure that the repository has the proper permissions if you plan to activate Git or HTTP protocols:

 chmod -R o+rX myrepo.git

To activate access via the Git protocol, you need to activate it:

cd myrepo.git
touch git-daemon-export-ok

To activate access via the HTTP protocol, you need to enable updating the Git internal references:

cd myrepo.git
mv hooks/post-update.sample hooks/post-update

Access methods sumup:

• Direct SSH access: ssh://login@vcs.duckcorp.org/srv/vcs/git/...
• Git via HTTP (read-only)
• Git via Git protocol using git://vcs-git.duckcorp.org/... to access /vcs/git/...
• Git browser