Description:

Gitolite allows a server to host many git repositories and provide
access to many developers, without having to give them real userids on
the server. The essential magic in doing this is ssh's pubkey access
and the authorized_keys file, and the inspiration was an older program
called gitosis.

Gitolite can restrict who can read from (clone/fetch) or write to
(push) a repository. It can also restrict who can push to what branch
or tag, which is very important in a corporate environment. Gitolite
can be installed without requiring root permissions, and with no
additional software than git itself and Perl.

Gitolite 3.x is a total rewrite of Gitolite 2.x, see the online
documentation for upgrade instructions.