From: Jerome Lovy Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:10:34 GMT Subject: Re: Windows permissions with repository on a network share Message-ID: <4DD39B1A.2030401@brefemail.com> In-Reply-To: Le 18/05/2011 10:52, Sitaram Chamarty a écrit : > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jerome Lovy > 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.