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Re: Does git have "Path-Based Authorization"?

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GGrant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
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Oct 1, 2011, 01:31 UTC
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>> Hello, I'm trying to decide between git and subversion.  Subversion
>> has "Path-Based Authorization" so I can give a developer access to
>> only specific files instead of everything.  Does git have something
>> similar?
>
> Git's model does not allow the same type "Path-Based Authorization" that
> Subversion uses, because git uses secure hash sums to make sure that
> people don't try to sneak changes into a pull request or merge, and you
> can't selectively download parts of the tree because then you couldn't
> check that one of your remotes isn't trying to lie to you.
>
> You can do something that is (or can be) similar with git and
> gitolite[0] so a developer (or set of developers) only has access to a
> particular set of branches. Depending on what exactly you're trying to
> do, this can be more or less complicated to set up. If you only want a
> set of developers to access the subdirectory
> clients/importantsecretclient, then you create that directory only in
> the branch or branches that developer can read. There are many examples
> int he gitolite wiki.

I have a series of files containing server-side code which make up a website. The entire layout contains only a few folders, but those folders contain many files. I want to be able to allow access to only certain files at a time, sometimes only a single file. Can that be done in the way you describe?

- Grant
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> [0] https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/wiki/
>
> HTH
>
>   cmn
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