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linux - Which *light* ubuntu to use as a git central server?




At my company we're currently using a self-deployed copy of the http://gitorious.org code to manage our repositories..




It's an absolute monster!!



Gitorious is a very heavy ruby on rails app and the server crashes about every 2 weeks..



It's running Ubuntu Server 10.04



And it has 1GB of RAM!!



Were a team of about 5 developers with currently about 10 repositories including stuff like vim configs etc..




I'm thinking about switching us back to gitosis running on an old CLI / Server edition of ubuntu..



Ideally i'd like to have it running as light as possible on a box with 256mb of ram..



Which ubuntu is new enough to support all the gitosis dependancies and but old enough to cope under 256mb of ram?



Thanks very much



Daniel



Answer



I would definitely advice gitolite. We use gitosis in house, manage a bunch of repositories that are about 20G in size compressed and have a lot of developers accessing them 24/7. The server usage is very light, never had an issue. Gitolite only improves upon gitosis and provides much finer grain of access control. I think we would be moving in that direction pretty soon.



We moved to gitolite and couldn't have been happier. Provides much better error checking and has much better grouping. Another thing we've learned that RW provides much of the necessary access but RW+ allows remote branch deletion privileges.



Next stop gitlab. But the latest version of gitlab stopped using gitolite for credentials management so we are skeptical about over-hauling our access management. Again.


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