Re: Git Confusion

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 29, 2009, 20:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20090529203854.GA14326@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <815c8c330905291324w4e861602n8278df72fdbc28db@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 01:24:59PM -0700, Paul Tarjan wrote:

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> The reason I need http is slightly convoluted. The remote machine is
> shared hosting with 1 ssh login that I don't want to give to my
> partner AND I don't have root on that box. And as you correctly
> guessed, that box doesn't have the git demon. The local machine where
> he is doing his development. The only solution I saw without giving
> him my username + pass to SSH was to do http cloning. Any better
> solutions?

You can let him login via ssh key and restrict the actions of that key just to running git-upload-pack (which is what "git clone" and "git fetch" will invoke to clone or fetch commits). Something like:

  command="git-upload-pack /path/to/repo" ssh-rsa ...

in your .ssh/authorized_keys file. Not that he still won't be able to actually push (which is maybe what you want).

For a more featureful solution (with permissions for pushing and pulling multiple repos), I think gitosis will do what you want (but I have never used it personally).

-Peff