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Asked: 2026-05-27T18:53:56+00:00

I’ve got a similar problem to this post here: gitolite push error -> remote:

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I’ve got a similar problem to this post here: gitolite push error -> remote: ENV GL_RC not set

I’ve installed gitolite successfully as a non-root method with no warnings or errors. Hoever I can’t push since I get ENV GL_RC not set errors. (If I try to manually assign that in my ENV I get a load of trouble.)

I can clone if I use:

git clone git@server:repositories/gitolite-admin

The solution from the link above is to use the following which I can not do. I can’t clone if I use:

git clone git@server:gitolite-admin

That renders a error of: 

Cloning into gitolite-admin...
fatal: 'gitolite-admin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I can’t do a package install since I’m on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS which doesn’t have it in its repository list.

I’ve looked through the documentation from http://sitaramc.github.com/ however I can’t seem to get it. Any ideas how I can resolve this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I confirm that:

    a/ git clone git@server:repositories/gitolite-admin will bypass gitolite, which triggers the ENV GL_RC not set error.

    b/ git clone git@server:gitolite-admin is the right syntax, and usually fails for ssh reason:

    In particular, note the command= option, which means "regardless of what the incoming user is asking to do, forcibly run this command instead".

    Without this command= option, the ssh daemon will simply give you a shell, which is not what we want for our gitolite keys (although we may well have other keys which we use to get a shell).

    This is the backbone of what makes gitolite work; please make sure you understand this.

    If you look in the authorized_keys file, you’ll see entries like this (I chopped off the ends of course; they’re pretty long lines):

    command="[path]/gl-auth-command sitaram",[more options] ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA18S2t...
command="[path]/gl-auth-command usertwo",[more options] ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEArXtCT...

    So check and make sure all your lines in ~git/.ssh/authorized_keys are correctly prefixed with the command= directive.

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