Installing Git on a server (Debian)

http://www.urbanpuddle.com/articles/2008/07/11/installing-git-on-a-server-ubuntu-or-debian

First off - a thank you to Vincent for pulling all these things together.

I ran into an issue that seem to be related to the version of the git-core package (I'm running debian etch stable). The version of git-core is 1.4.4, and apparently they had not introduced `git-init` until 1.5.* - so my calls to `gitosis-init` were erroring out (like this gentlemen's: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473908).

So - I just did an install from source for git-1.6.0 ... there are instructions out there, so I bother pointing to those.

Thank again! I really did appreciate using this.

The only thing I'd mention after that is the call to `gitosis-init` looks like this for debian:

su - git -c gitosis-init < /home/joeuser/.ssh/authorized_keys

I tried to post this as a comment on Vincent's blog but I kept getting Apache errors.