Re: Migrate from svn to git

From: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Date: May 26, 2010, 17:04 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTilNlttIQxyhMJz8_wiOQX5OaL0UahsE54mv6rQ3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BFD3AAF.4080403@fechner.net>

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net> wrote:

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> For each of this subdirectories I have usergroups defined which has no
> access, read access or rw access.
>
> If I understood the manual correctly I can stick on that structure and
> easily work here with the unix-permission to grant access to the folders?
> I think I have to test then acl with freebsd to have more then one group for
> each directory.

Dealing with acl sounds like a lot of work and complications to me. Have a look at gitolite. It is covered quite nice in the progit book [1]

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> The second question is, I someone commits some files with svn an email is
> sent to a svn-commit mailinglist so changes can easily be discussed.
> The current mail is sent in html format with a colored diff, so it is easier
> to read.
>
> Is something similar possible with git or do you suggest a complete
> approach?

For this you might want to look at Gerrit [2]. It's a web-based code review. Although it is not email based (AFAIK).

nazri.

[1] http://progit.org/book/ch4-8.html [2] http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/