Accessing Gitolite repositories
With the background from the previous section, we're ready to see how things change when a user goes through Gitolite to access a Git repository.
Note
This section will contain the basic material that most administrators would need to provide to their users, or to explain to them how to access a Gitolite server. However, depending on your users' familiarity with ssh and related topics, you may have to expand this material with supplementary information, examples, or instructions specific to your site.
SSH key pairs
The most significant change is that password access is no longer possible; users must use a key pair and send the public key to the administrator so that they can be added to Gitolite. If this does not happen, ...
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