Re: Git and securing a repository

["David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>]

On Jan 2, 2008 9:04 PM, Gonzalo Garramuño <ggarra@advancedsl.com.ar> wrote:
> Felipe Balbi wrote:
> >
> > it's easy on the full repository case, create different groups and
> > share git repositories by groups, after that chmod o-rwx -R
> > /path/to/repository.git.
> >
>
> Thanks.  I'll admit what you describe is somewhat discouraging, as what
> you are just describing is just managing user accounts or groups on the
> underlying OS.  That does not extend well to placing code on the net and
> has a bunch of administrative headaches.
>
> I was really looking for a permission based system that was part of git
> itself (and thus more portable and easier to admin), and not the OS.
> Something akin to what perforce or even CVS can do.

You can do arbitrarily-fine-grained authentication via the pre-receive hook.


Dave.