Re: Whether Git supports directory level access or not?

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Jul 7, 2015, 07:16 UTC
Message-ID: <559B7CD2.1040507@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <705bdbdc6a8195d59203bcb1f3027714@stockal.com>

On 07.07.15 08:40, saurabh@stockal.com wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> Please let me know whether Git supports directory level access or not.
> 
> For example :- Consider the structure with one repository consisting of sub directories for each product.
> main_repo:
>    dir1 dir
>    dir2 dir
>    shared-dir dir
>    private dir
> One group(user) of developers has access to dir1 and shared-dir while the other group(user) has access to dir2 and shared-resources.
> Just for context, both dir1 and dir2 require shared-dir to be checked out for building the products.
> 
> And private dir is only accessible by admin(repo owner).
> 
> Regards
> Saurabh gaur

Git is a distributed VCS. If you do a clone, all information is available on your local machine.

Solution: Use a different repo for private stuff, in your example you need 4 repos, which has the advantage that each product has it's own repo.

HTH