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Yes, we hope to make installing and upgrading GitLab much easier this way.

We wanted to allow other projects to use GitLab-shell too, that is why we made it a separate project https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell

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I know that but much of the authentication and post receive stuff is hard coded to point at the GitLab API.

If you could abstract this it'd be great.

We are open to proposals and pull requests to do this. It is not very productive to abstract things without a few examples of projects it should be generalized for.

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