Yes or just install soft-serve, another git server implementation (with much more sane documentation IMHO, gitolite is great but the docs are a scatterbrained m

Yes or just install soft-serve, another git server implementation (with much more sane documentation IMHO, gitolite is great but the docs are a scatterbrained mess). The point is that a git server isn't just ssh and git except in the most barebones simple use case.