From: Bruce Stephens Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:45:01 GMT Subject: Re: Can I enforce required approval on some files Message-ID: <80pqyhc27m.fsf@tiny.isode.net> In-Reply-To: Dominik Gront writes: > I have been a happy SVN user for quite a long time, but now I miss > some functionality in Subversion. I wonder if it could be done in git. > If so, I convert to git right away :-) > > There are some files in our repository that all their modification > need to be approved by a project leader. Either have the repository owned by someone who'll do whatever checking you want (which seems to be common at least amongst the public projects) or use hooks in a shared repository. Specifically the update hook. The hook can do whatever checking you deem appropriate. At work we have it check the commit message for Signed-off-by names (in our context it really means Reviewed-by; we use sob because that's more convenient to add). The hook could look at which files are changed or whatever else you wanted. (Notice it gets called to update a ref, and that may involve more than one commit, so be sure to check all the relevant commits.) [...]