1. cd gitosis-admin && git pull – enter your gitosis administrative repository and ensure it is up-to-date
2. $EDITOR gitosis.conf
3. add [group newreponame] section (newreponame is the name of your new repository being added); add yourself with members = yourlogin@yourhost line; also add writable = newreponame line:
   

   [group newreponame]
   members = yourlogin@yourhost
   writable = newreponame

4. based on my assumption of a correctly setup gitosis-admin repository, you should already have the appropriate public key in the keydir directory, but if not – copy your user’s ssh public key to keydir in the form of yourlogin@yourhostname.pub, then do git add keydir/yourlogin@yourhostname.pub
5. git commit -am ‘new repository: newreponame’; git push;
6. now that you have the new repo permissions configured, let’s actually create it. Navigate to the directory holding the files of your project (e.g. cd ~/newreponame), and do git init; git add . – this initializes empty git repository, and then adds all the files to it. If you have no files – you can skip the ‘git add .’ command, as it will do nothing for you.
7. git commit -m ‘initial commit’. If you had no files added to the commit, git will complain that it cannot create an empty commit. In this case use the command git commit ––allow-empty -m ‘initial commit’
8. git remote add origin ssh://gitosis@yourGitosisServerName/newreponame.git
9. git push ––all
10. final thing: git config ––add branch.master.remote origin && git config ––add branch.master.merge refs/heads/master; alternatively, cd .git && $EDITOR config, and then add these lines:
    

    [branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master

    Without these lines, you won’t be able to git pull.

develop Debian into an operating system that is particularly well fit for the requirements for medical practice and research

Debian-Med has several web sites/pages: one at Debian.org (descriptive), and the actual project’s website at debian-med.alioth.debian.org. There’s also debian-med wiki (for developers).

As of nowadays, Debian-Med has released a number of Debian packages, which are grouped into respective Debian Med Tasks. The Biology-dev task, for example, contains MCL and libsbml packages (among many others).

Check this project out – you might find that the software you need is already available as Debian package.

This post was stimulated by Steffen’s comment.

Finally, just a useful resource if you need a shiny name for your brand-new 2.0-beta project: anagram server.