I have a shared hosting package and I have installed git from source. I created a repo and intend to create a couple more, but I was wondering if there is any way to secure the git repository. Currently I access it over regular http. I do have a shared SSL cert, but I'm pretty sure that won't be of use here.
Edit: by secure, I mean authenticated, not encrypted.
You can use gitosis to configure fine-grained repository permissions with ssh authentication. However, gitosis needs a separate user account because it takes over that account's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys; the separate account also makes it more secure.
Edit: gitolite doesn't need a separate user account. Here is the tutorial.
If it's http, can you not just use the http server authetication? i.e. .htaccess