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.

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