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Windows permissions with repository on a network share

Subject: Windows permissions with repository on a network share

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3 messages between May 17, 2011 and May 18, 2011.

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Jerome Lovy· May 17, 2011, 15:25 UTC · lore

Hello,

Did anyone experiment with Windows permissions for a Git repository located on a Windows network share?

Is it a sensible scheme in order to have a central repository with ACLs (notably some group can read/write, some other group can only read) without the need to set up a dedicated server (ala Gitolite) ? (Assuming a Windows network share infrastructure is already in place...)

TIA Jérôme

Sitaram Chamarty· May 18, 2011, 08:52 UTC · re: Jerome Lovy · lore

Re: Windows permissions with repository on a network share

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jerome Lovy <t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com> wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> Did anyone experiment with Windows permissions for a Git repository located
> on a Windows network share?
>
> Is it a sensible scheme in order to have a central repository with ACLs
> (notably some group can read/write, some other group can only read) without
> the need to set up a dedicated server (ala Gitolite) ?
> (Assuming a Windows network share infrastructure is already in place...)

I don't know about Windows but any OS/file-system level ACL system that has more granularity than the usual user/group/other, ought to work fine.

The only thing gitolite can add is branch-level permissions, which it doesn't sound like you need.

[Of course, I like to think that the config file in gitolite is a much cleaner way of setting, reviewing, changing, and tracking changes of, permissions, but I'm biased ;-)]

Jerome Lovy· May 18, 2011, 10:10 UTC · re: Sitaram Chamarty · lore

Re: Windows permissions with repository on a network share

Le 18/05/2011 10:52, Sitaram Chamarty a écrit :

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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jerome Lovy
> <t2a2e9z8ncbs9qg@brefemail.com>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Did anyone experiment with Windows permissions for a Git repository located
>> on a Windows network share?
>>
>> Is it a sensible scheme in order to have a central repository with ACLs
>> (notably some group can read/write, some other group can only read) without
>> the need to set up a dedicated server (ala Gitolite) ?
>> (Assuming a Windows network share infrastructure is already in place...)
>
> I don't know about Windows but any OS/file-system level ACL system
> that has more granularity than the usual user/group/other, ought to
> work fine.
>
> The only thing gitolite can add is branch-level permissions, which it
> doesn't sound like you need.
>
> [Of course, I like to think that the config file in gitolite is a much
> cleaner way of setting, reviewing, changing, and tracking changes of,
> permissions, but I'm biased ;-)]

In this respect, Gitolite has a good point indeed with the auditing possibility, thanks to change tracking.