Windows permissions with repository on a network share

Windows permissions with repository on a network share

[Jerome Lovy]

Hello,

Did anyone experiment with Windows permissions for a Git repository 
located on a Windows network share?

Is it a sensible scheme in order to have a central repository with ACLs 
(notably some group can read/write, some other group can only read) 
without the need to set up a dedicated server (ala Gitolite) ?
(Assuming a Windows network share infrastructure is already in place...)

TIA
Jérôme

Re: Windows permissions with repository on a network share

[Sitaram Chamarty]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jerome Lovy
<t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Did anyone experiment with Windows permissions for a Git repository located
> on a Windows network share?
>
> Is it a sensible scheme in order to have a central repository with ACLs
> (notably some group can read/write, some other group can only read) without
> the need to set up a dedicated server (ala Gitolite) ?
> (Assuming a Windows network share infrastructure is already in place...)

I don't know about Windows but any OS/file-system level ACL system
that has more granularity than the usual user/group/other, ought to
work fine.

The only thing gitolite can add is branch-level permissions, which it
doesn't sound like you need.

[Of course, I like to think that the config file in gitolite is a much
cleaner way of setting, reviewing, changing, and tracking changes of,
permissions, but I'm biased ;-)]

Re: Windows permissions with repository on a network share

[Jerome Lovy]

Le 18/05/2011 10:52, Sitaram Chamarty a écrit :
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jerome Lovy
> <t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Did anyone experiment with Windows permissions for a Git repository located
>> on a Windows network share?
>>
>> Is it a sensible scheme in order to have a central repository with ACLs
>> (notably some group can read/write, some other group can only read) without
>> the need to set up a dedicated server (ala Gitolite) ?
>> (Assuming a Windows network share infrastructure is already in place...)
>
> I don't know about Windows but any OS/file-system level ACL system
> that has more granularity than the usual user/group/other, ought to
> work fine.
>
> The only thing gitolite can add is branch-level permissions, which it
> doesn't sound like you need.
>
> [Of course, I like to think that the config file in gitolite is a much
> cleaner way of setting, reviewing, changing, and tracking changes of,
> permissions, but I'm biased ;-)]

In this respect, Gitolite has a good point indeed with the auditing 
possibility, thanks to change tracking.