Re: Folder level Acces in git

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Nov 3, 2011, 18:13 UTC
Message-ID: <4EB2D9BD.6020801@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <20111103071701.GA22412@jpl.local>

Am 03.11.2011 08:17, schrieb Magnus Bäck:

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> On Thursday, November 03, 2011 at 07:10 CET,
>      redhat1981 <redhat1981@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Inside the repository, testabc let us say there are folders folder1,
>> folder 2 etc, I want some users to have read/write, read or no access
>> to the folder1 or folder2, Is this possible in Git, I have done it in
>> SVN, Please help!!
> 
> Given Git's nature, you can't have read access restrictions on a sub-git
> level (i.e. file/directory level). For basically the same reason, you
> can never prevent users from making (local) commits that modify certain
> paths (but you can encourage people to have local hooks to enforce such
> policies). What you *can* do is install a server-side update hook that
> rejects attempts to push commits that modify certain paths. If you're
> willing to trade Gitosis for Gitolite, you get that feature for free.

Directory read access control can be achieved by putting the directory content into a submodule. You can then control who is allowed to clone from the repo for that submodule separately from the superproject, thereby disallowing a group of people to see (let alone modify) what is in there.

http://progit.org/book/ch6-6.html