Re: Can I prevent someone clone my git repository?

"Emily Ren" <lingyan.ren@gmail.com> writes:

It depends on what transport these people come from.

On the local filesystem transport (either same host or network-mounted filesystem), you do it the same way as you solve "how do I show these files of mine on the local computer to some but not others". Typically, you place these group members in the same UNIX group, make the toplevel directory of the hierarchy owned by the group, and "chmod g+rx,o=" it (and make everything underneath group readable). Setting core.sharedrepository configuration variable would help maintain the group readability.

If they come over the http transport, you would solve it the same way as you solve "how do I allow access to these files on my webserver to only selected few?" Probably .htaccess file in the toplevel directory will be involved.

You can set up gitosis and have it serve your repository, and register group members' SSH keys to gitosis. It allows you to categorize these users into different groups, and assign read-only or read-write access to repositories. When this is done, these people will be coming over the "git over ssh" transport, i.e. git@your-host:/path/to/repository.git/ or its synonym ssh://git@your-host/path/to/repository.git/

The git-daemon transport deliberately omits authentication, and you cannot restrict when they come over the git native transport using a URL like git://your-host/repository.git

-jc