title: Git Server Frustration (Gitosis, Gitolite, etc)
body: <p><em>Please excuse the frustrating undertones as I have attempted to get this set up correctly multiple times to no avail (possibly and most likely due to my ignorance, but also likely due to the lack of thorough and concise documentation).</em></p>
  
  <p>I am trying to set up a git server so that I can share code amongst a small team of developers.  Each developer may connect from multiple client PC's.  I come from MS in the past so I am a bit spoiled in regards to development <em>toolset</em>, but it would be awesome if I could get something similar to TFS.</p>
  
  <p>When trying to set up either gitosis (I understand this is deprecated for the git community per <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/225495/ubuntu-server-gitosis-user-naming-convention">https://serverfault.com/questions/225495/ubuntu-server-gitosis-user-naming-convention</a>) or gitolite, it seems as though as soon as I set it up I have to be extremely careful because it seems everything is balancing on toothpicks.</p>
  
  <p>My latest attempt to set up a git server included moving my public key (benny.pub) from my laptop to the server, setting everything using that public key and pulling down the config to set up a repo and permissions.  I then realized I want to develop on another PC so I created a new key (benny@desktop.pub) and renamed benny.pub to benny@laptop.pub which screwed things up obviously.  This is where I know I was dumb by changing the name.</p>
  
  <p>My question after a long-winded description is this: how can I set up a sturdy self-hosted git server with the ability to have multiple developers log in from multiple machines while maintaining security, etc?  There has to be a proven technique (gitolite describes maybe 4-5 different ways...also frustrating) to do this as I'm sure I'm not the only one trying to do this exact same thing.  Maybe git isn't right for my team?</p>
  
  <p>Any help is greatly appreciated!</p>