Redmine is a really great project tracking tool. Its been there 3 years now, and lately smashed track from the throne as my former #1 tool. Its got all the features i wanted from trac (subprojects, git support, …), plus it’s much nicer to use (ajaax!), its written in rails (hell i like rails), and development is going really fast (thanks to Jean-Philippe Lang). I just use the trunk, never had any problems with it. (0.9 pre)

I am using apache, phusion passenger, mysql (i may switch to postgres, oracle, u know why…), git and gitosis on a ubuntu hardy machine.

Redmine has fine git integration. BUT – it can’t [yet] read from bare git repos, which you get with using gitosis as your git management tool. This is where the fun begins:

I assume that you already set up gitosis. (change the path to map your configuration)

So change your /home/git/repositories/<yourepo>/hooks/post-update file

Well, it’s not perfect, maybe some people are more comfortable if the whole output is moved to /dev/null, but it works pretty well.

Don’t forget to create a _local git copy_ (via git clone git@localhost:<yourrepo>.git in /home/git/checkout (or whatever folder you prefer)

Comments on this are appreciated. It took me a while to figure that out…

If you are on github, you may like this instead.

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