multiple group access to update repo

Neal Kreitzinger· Jan 15, 2011, 04:53 UTC · lore

How do I allow users from different linux group to cd to a common bare mirror repo and also to a common non-bare cloned repo and perform git-fetch and git pull --ff-only? Currently, the non-owner group gets this error:

error: cannot open FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

v/r, Neal

Manuel Doninger· Jan 16, 2011, 12:27 UTC · re: Neal Kreitzinger · lore

Re: multiple group access to update repo

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 05:53, Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com> wrote:

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> How do I allow users from different linux group to cd to a common bare
> mirror repo and also to a common non-bare cloned repo and perform git-fetch
> and git pull --ff-only?  Currently, the non-owner group gets this error:
>
> error: cannot open FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied
>
>
> v/r,
> Neal
>

In this case i would suggest to access the repository via SSH and do the access control with Gitolite. Then you can use for example a user "Git" and chmod the repositories to that user and group. Depending on the size of your team, it could need a bit of time to configure Gitolite, but it's very flexible to adjust it for later needs. If this doesn't fit your needs, then i think the only solution is to create a linux group only for that repository and assign all users, that need access to the repository, to that group.

Manuel