user permission / authority

ian· Sep 6, 2011, 10:13 UTC · lore

I could not find user permission or authority level. Thatis, I can restrict a user not to use the 'commit' function for example. Seems that everyone having GIT & TortoiseGIT can do any of the functions. Is there a way (or any other GUI)that enables these restrictions by user?

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Carlos Martín Nieto· Sep 6, 2011, 10:45 UTC · re: ian · lore

Re: user permission / authority

On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 03:13 -0700, ian wrote:

> I could not find user permission or authority level. Thatis, I can restrict a
> user not to use the 'commit' function for example. Seems that everyone
> having GIT & TortoiseGIT can do any of the functions. Is there a way (or any
> other GUI)that enables these restrictions by user?

Not as far as I know, but this isn't necessary. Git is a distributed system, so any changes that an user does only exist in their local repository until they push the changes out to some other repository, and with gitolite[0] you can restrict who can push to which branches.

If you just want people to be able to browse the repository, maybe installing gitweb or cgit would fit your needs better.

[0] https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite