In Gitosis, I can modify the path to the repositories directory by adding the following to gitosis.conf:
[gitosis]
repositories = /path/to/repositories
Is there a way to do the same thing in Gitolite?
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(couldn't answer my own question for 8 hours so I'm posting this here for now...)
Obviously I didn't RTFM...
Turns out this is possible by setting $REPO_BASE in .gitolite.rc
See http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/rc.html for more info.