--- title: Gitolite | daily.dev description: Gitolite is an open source tool for hosting Git repositories on a central server with fine-grained access control. The page covers installation and setup... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gitolite-lrvk7khjr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Gitolite | daily.dev og:description: Gitolite is an open source tool for hosting Git repositories on a central server with fine-grained access control. The page covers installation and setup... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gitolite-lrvk7khjr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LRvk7KHjR.png og:image:alt: Gitolite og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Gitolite **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Gitolite is an open source tool for hosting Git repositories on a central server with fine-grained access control. The page covers installation and setup (including package manager notes and a quick install guide), documentation resources including a published book, troubleshooting via an emergencies page, support channels (mailing lists and IRC), and licensing details (GPL v2 for software, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 for documentation). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What package name should I install to get gitolite via my package manager? It is often packaged as gitolite3 rather than gitolite, so check the exact package name before installing since the plain name may not match. The source code is hosted at codeberg.org/sitaramc/gitolite, with a mirror also available on GitHub under sitaramc/gitolite. _daily.dev keeps developers setting up self-hosted git servers current on tools like gitolite._ ### How do I report a security vulnerability in gitolite? Security issues should be emailed directly to the maintainer at sitaramc@gmail.com rather than posted to the public mailing list or IRC channel. There is also a separate low-traffic, one-way mailing list for release and security announcements that developers can subscribe to for notifications. _Teams running gitolite in production track security advisories like this through daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Gitte As Git Client For GNOME Continues Maturing Quite Nicely](https://daily.dev/posts/gitte-as-git-client-for-gnome-continues-maturing-quite-nicely-ckbfgnbts) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GitRoot](https://daily.dev/posts/gitroot-vrvvjquf5) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Git Rail Control: An Interactive Way To Learn Git](https://daily.dev/posts/git-rail-control-an-interactive-way-to-learn-git-lao4naipq) · Thomas Thornton · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [I like GitLab](https://daily.dev/posts/i-like-gitlab-esuxm3yiz) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/gitolite-lrvk7khjr) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Gitolite","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/gitolite-lrvk7khjr","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/gitolite-lrvk7khjr"},"datePublished":"2026-07-20T16:54:22.989Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:16:32.715Z","description":"Gitolite is an open source tool for hosting Git repositories on a central server with fine-grained access control. 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