Ubuntu – gitolite on ubuntu 12 always asking for password when trying to clone gitolite-admin

Gitolite 2.x

If git is not in the default PATH, then you can set $GIT_PATH in your gitolite user’s ~/.gitolite.rc.

The default .gitolite.rc comes with this line:

$GIT_PATH="";

If your Git installation is under /usr/local (so that you have /usr/local/bin/git), then replace the above line with this one:

$GIT_PATH="/usr/local/bin";

See “support for git installed outside default PATH” in the Gitolite documentation.

Gitolite 3.x

The 3.x version of Gitolite is a complete rewrite. One of the incompatibilities with respect to the 2.x series is the lack of $GIT_PATH. From the “incompatible features”, “high impact” section of the migration documentation:

• GIT_PATH dropped, requires presetting.

  If you need its functionality, add these lines to the end of the rc file:

  $ENV{PATH}="...whatever you want...";
  1;
  

So, for Gitolite 3.x, the ~/.gitolite.rc change should be something like this:

$ENV{PATH}="/usr/local/bin:$ENV{PATH}";

(somewhere before the final 1; line)

If you still prefer using svn up for live site, read svn help up carefully and pay attention on some options in order to handle credential in the Smart Way

Global options:
  --username ARG           : specify a username ARG
  --password ARG           : specify a password ARG
  --no-auth-cache          : do not cache authentication tokens