From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sitaram Chamarty Subject: Re: denying branch creation in a shared repository Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:54:48 +0530 Message-ID: <2e24e5b90910200424m340c52d8rabc0b61a7bf55c45@mail.gmail.com> References: <2e24e5b90910190143j5579d9dfle15df8625eb20a00@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Mohit Aron X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 20 13:26:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N0Cqu-00015C-Ja for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:26:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751804AbZJTLYp (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:24:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751797AbZJTLYp (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:24:45 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f178.google.com ([209.85.223.178]:54129 "EHLO mail-iw0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751793AbZJTLYo (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:24:44 -0400 Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so2816966iwn.33 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:24:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Vv+ZEn8Aq+L8cTUNCXiCxd0rc7x8vdAONAy2K9I68eM=; b=TdAo8Tc421W+2fZzUxjHRaaJquxHVth2PlsAB1xjO6ImnGxtfYZ8LnEEMjiNczQxT+ SvDKp/2b236hJ0XColN9ctEeEZPdZh/HszqqQXchlfy3LgsVj5/+vQt/hWziXdQ3JU9o CYeoKhTjnt5ud/Ba46qq43BDarQDRan5ve3hw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=NbKSQstok5KdHR+sELEmjDzXXlP5+YlhqQ2Vn6NGmxKSxgaZdqnuj0bTwCKBDVQDSL zImj4huBQ7cFEd31DQdB7bYlu/GEZifjRz4NgznA/pJHT6B5E5ct9T30Q8vp5SJcvmfW ko7/hJj3YihccJKXDnXtw5TqtxLONbvZDQsWc= Received: by 10.231.120.30 with SMTP id b30mr7486216ibr.15.1256037888691; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:24:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Mohit Aron wrote: >> >> That was the main reason I wrote gitolite >> (http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite), though now it does a heck of a >> lot more than just that. >> > > That's great. You might want to consider making it a deb package > that's available from one of the Ubuntu/Debian repositories. An apt > search on Ubuntu 9.10 doesn't reveal it. I usually shy away from > installing software on my machines that is not automatically managed. There are a couple of answers to this: (1) I'm not really a debian guy, and definitely not ubuntu. My distro of choice for nearly 10 years has been Mandriva :-) (2) gitolite's second reason for existence [after the one in this thread] is the need to install something on machines where you do *not* have root, can't create another user, etc etc. There was a Solaris 9 on which I couldn't install python-setuptools, and so no gitosis :-( Regardless of all that, someone is working on it... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550817 I respect your inclination to shy away; I do the same for pretty much everything except git itself and one or two others. But if you don't mind looking through the documentation (browse it directly on github; it'll render the markdown properly, though the plain text is quite readable too), you may be able to better decide if you want to use it despite this limitation. Regards, Sita