How do I give a user access to all repositories in gitolite?

Question

I have a certain user (backup) that regularly clones/fetches all the repositories in our gitolite system. I have to manually add

 R = backup 

to every single repo I have. Is there an easier way to give this user access to every single repo?

Answer 1

Note that if, for some reason, you need to exclude a repo from user 'backup' access, you can add a deny rule:

repo gitolite-admin
    -   =   backup
    option deny-rules = 1

repo @all
    R   =   backup

Here, you wouldn't backup the main gitolite-admin repo, for instance.

See rules of accumulation.

Answer 2

Try this:

repo    @all
  R     = backup