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Re: [ANNOUNCE] codeBeamer MR - Easy ACL for Git

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Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 20, 2009, 04:56 UTC
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Intland Software <marketing@intland.com> wrote:
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> Petr Baudis wrote:
>>
>> I think a lot of people wonder now, how does this compare to existing
>> solutions; from your announcement I thought it's something like
>> Gitosis/Gitolite, but in fact it seems more similar to Gitorious or
>> GitHub (if it was publicly available, of course); perhaps it would be
>
> All right, some quick comparisons with codeBeamer Managed Repository (MR).
>
> * MR against Gitosis
I think you meant "versus" :-)
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> In terms of access control, MR has the concept of "role", and it makes our
> security model more fine grained. Permissions can be set by role. One user
> account can have multiple roles. Roles are project-dependent. When you add a
> group to a project, you can assign multiple roles to the group (which is
> equivalent with assigning those roles to each group member one by one).
> On the other hand, MR has a much broader scope than Gitosis. MR helps you to
> manage your repos, to track your tasks/bugs/issues, to follow commit
> activities, to browse repos in the web, can be extended using its APIs, etc.
> (And you don't have to install and maintain Git extensions for this.)
> * MR against Gitolite
> Pretty much the same applies here as well.

Conceptually, gitolite can do the roles stuff you mentioned, if I understood it correctly. Of course, gitolite's access config is in plain text.

The web-based control, issue tracking, etc., are all on a different plane from what gitosis/gitolite aim to be. So much so that I might even disagree with Pasky on the need to mention these two products in your website. Here's one perspective (in round figures):

gitolite:   1600 lines of shell+perl, 1600 lines of doc
gitosis:    3300 lines of python
MR:         150 MB binary download
I don't honestly see any way to even *begin* to compare :-)

You should stick to gitorious, github, and -- here's a new one for you -- indefero.

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Sitaram
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