Re: Folder level Acces in git

From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 4, 2011, 15:59 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPZPVFZwW1VF2qb8YVQjBixRzZgz+HSz6NjJBUimuC-nx7LwZQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EB36855.8000802@workspacewhiz.com>

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eugene Sajine
> Date: 11/3/2011 1:28 PM
>>
>> Are you sure that the way your have organized the repository is
>> actually correct? If you need to manage the access on folder level why
>> don't you simply split up the project into several
>> repositories/projects which each team is going to work with
>> independently?
>>
>> This seems to me to be much simpler and cleaner solution then any
>> other alternative.
>>
> Submodules are _not_ simple at all.  Our organization of nearly 100
> developers using Git pretty much let out a collective cheer when we finally
> removed the submodules.  Submodules are an absolute pain to develop within;
> there are a number of Git mailing list exchanges about that, but I'd be
> happy to go into great detail if anybody cares.  Even submodules that are
> read-only are a pain as it takes two steps (git pull + git submodule update)
> to actually get them up to date.
>
> Ick.
>
> In short, if it is an absolute requirement to manage access to a repository
> on a folder level, get Subversion or Perforce.  DVCS is not for you...
>
> Josh
>

That is exactly what i wanted to say. I suggest OP not to go into submodules, but just have separate repositories. I think if they need this kind of granularity in permissions it means that their repository is too big and incorrectly organized. I think they are trying to migrate to better VCS (as git is superior by definition;) ), but they still think in central VCS terms and that's what causing this folder level management requirement to appear. We at $work have hundreds of repositories and never had any need of submodules or folder level permissions. (One repo = one project = one artifact) + Ivy as dependency manager works just fine and if we will need to fine tune the permissions it will be always pretty easy to do.

Thanks, Eugene