I’m assuming you’ve read my previous post on Setting up a Git server with Windows Server 2008 and are ready to follow along as the steps assume you’ve already installed Cygwin with Git, OpenSSH and Python.

The blog post by Sandesh Singh on setting up Gitosis with Windows Vista was an amazing resource and without it, I would still be trying to get Gitosis working.

Installing Python Setuptools

• Download the Python Setuptools egg.
• Open a Cygwin bash prompt and navigate to the directory containing your download.
• Execute

  sh setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg

• You should see

  Processing setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg
  Copying setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages
  Adding setuptools 0.6c9 to easy-install.pth file
  Installing easy_install script to /usr/bin
  Installing easy_install-2.5 script to /usr/bin
  
  Installed /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg
  Processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c9
  Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c9
  

• Execute

  chmod +r /usr/lib/python2.5/ -R

Installing Gitosis

• Download or clone the Gitosis repository
• Open a Cygwin bash prompt and navigate to the directory containing Gitosis.
• Execute

  python setup.py install

• Copy the public key of the user you wish to administer the Gitosis server to /tmp directory.
• Log out of the Administrator account and login as the git account.
• Open a Cygwin bash prompt and execute

  gitosis-init < /tmp/id_rsa.pub

• You should see

  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/
  Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/
  

• Execute

  chmod 755 /home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update

Gitosis is now setup and we're ready to clone the gitosis-admin repository to create and administer Git repositories on our server.