5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Gitolite first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“Cool thing about gitolite is that you manage it using text files and committing to the gitolite admin git repository.”
mixed · production · samlinnfer · 2026-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They worked great... nowadays there are options better than gitolite alone.”
mixed · production · actionowl · 2018-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At first we had to install gitolite as well and update it. Then we switched to gitlab-shell”
regret · production · andmarios · 2013-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from a combination of Github + Gitolite/Gitosis to GitLab”
neutral · production · mrmondo · 2016-08-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from github + Gitolite to gitlab a few months back and we're loving it.”
neutral · production · mrmondo · 2014-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?