Lost my gitosis' post-update

Don’t ask me why neither how, but I’ve lost the gitosis’ post-update on my server. So, among others, the .gitosis.conf wasn’t updated anymore…

Ok, let’s start at the beginning. I’m hosting some git repositories on my server using gitosis. Today I tried to create a new repository by editing the gitosis.conf in the gitosis-admin repo, but I couldn’t push the new created repo to the server:

~ % git push origin master:refs/heads/master
ERROR:gitosis.serve.main:Repository read access denied
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Damn, looking at the server all rights through the gitosis home seem to be ok. But I was wondering why the $HOME/.gitosis.conf of the gitosis user wasn’t updated!? How could this happen?

After some thoughts I found out, that the link $HOME/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update was pointing to nirvana:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 gitosis gitosis 97 Aug 23  2009 /home/git/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update -> /usr/share/python-support/gitosis/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/gitosis/templates/admin/hooks/post-update

Seems that the file /usr/share/python-support/gitosis/gitosis-0.2-py2.5.egg/gitosis/templates/admin/hooks/post-update was deleted through an update (one week ago I updated gitosis 0.2+20090917-9 -> 0.2+20090917-10 ).. Didn’t find an announce of it or any workaround, but I identified a template in /usr/share/pyshared/gitosis/templates/admin/hooks/post-update . So the solution (hack) is to link to that file:

ln -s /usr/share/pyshared/gitosis/templates/admin/hooks/post-update $GITOSISHOME/repositories/gitosis-admin.git/hooks/post-update

Just replace $GITOSISHOME with the home of your gitosis user, mine lives for example in /home/git .

Now every think works fine. If anybody has a better solution please tell me!