{"thread":{"id":"27382","subject":"Windows permissions with repository on a network share","startedAt":"2011-05-17T15:25:28Z","lastAt":"2011-05-18T10:10:34Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Jerome Lovy","Sitaram Chamarty"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"168063","messageId":"iqu417$qnj$1@dough.gmane.org","threadId":"27382","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Windows permissions with repository on a network share","fromName":"Jerome Lovy","fromEmail":"t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com","sentAt":"2011-05-17T15:25:28Z","receivedAt":"2011-05-17T15:25:28Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\nDid anyone experiment with Windows permissions for a Git repository \nlocated on a Windows network share?\n\nIs it a sensible scheme in order to have a central repository with ACLs \n(notably some group can read/write, some other group can only read) \nwithout the need to set up a dedicated server (ala Gitolite) ?\n(Assuming a Windows network share infrastructure is already in place...)\n\nTIA\nJérôme\n"},{"id":"168120","messageId":"BANLkTikb4Q9ZmG-ToaV5LXLzfrcBu58PUw@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"27382","inReplyTo":"iqu417$qnj$1@dough.gmane.org","subject":"Re: Windows permissions with repository on a network share","fromName":"Sitaram Chamarty","fromEmail":"sitaramc@gmail.com","sentAt":"2011-05-18T08:52:51Z","receivedAt":"2011-05-18T08:52:51Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sitaramc@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/43316?v=4"},"body":"On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jerome Lovy\n<t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com> wrote:\n> Hello,\n>\n> Did anyone experiment with Windows permissions for a Git repository located\n> on a Windows network share?\n>\n> Is it a sensible scheme in order to have a central repository with ACLs\n> (notably some group can read/write, some other group can only read) without\n> the need to set up a dedicated server (ala Gitolite) ?\n> (Assuming a Windows network share infrastructure is already in place...)\n\nI don't know about Windows but any OS/file-system level ACL system\nthat has more granularity than the usual user/group/other, ought to\nwork fine.\n\nThe only thing gitolite can add is branch-level permissions, which it\ndoesn't sound like you need.\n\n[Of course, I like to think that the config file in gitolite is a much\ncleaner way of setting, reviewing, changing, and tracking changes of,\npermissions, but I'm biased ;-)]\n"},{"id":"168126","messageId":"4DD39B1A.2030401@brefemail.com","threadId":"27382","inReplyTo":"BANLkTikb4Q9ZmG-ToaV5LXLzfrcBu58PUw@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Windows permissions with repository on a network share","fromName":"Jerome Lovy","fromEmail":"t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com","sentAt":"2011-05-18T10:10:34Z","receivedAt":"2011-05-18T10:10:34Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Le 18/05/2011 10:52, Sitaram Chamarty a écrit :\n> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jerome Lovy\n> <t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com>  wrote:\n>> Hello,\n>>\n>> Did anyone experiment with Windows permissions for a Git repository located\n>> on a Windows network share?\n>>\n>> Is it a sensible scheme in order to have a central repository with ACLs\n>> (notably some group can read/write, some other group can only read) without\n>> the need to set up a dedicated server (ala Gitolite) ?\n>> (Assuming a Windows network share infrastructure is already in place...)\n>\n> I don't know about Windows but any OS/file-system level ACL system\n> that has more granularity than the usual user/group/other, ought to\n> work fine.\n>\n> The only thing gitolite can add is branch-level permissions, which it\n> doesn't sound like you need.\n>\n> [Of course, I like to think that the config file in gitolite is a much\n> cleaner way of setting, reviewing, changing, and tracking changes of,\n> permissions, but I'm biased ;-)]\n\nIn this respect, Gitolite has a good point indeed with the auditing \npossibility, thanks to change tracking.\n"}]}