# user permission / authority

2 messages from 2011-09-06 to 2011-09-06. Participants: ian, Carlos Martín Nieto.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/28311

## ian, 2011-09-06 10:13

Subject: user permission / authority
Message-ID: <1315303980991-6763296.post@n2.nabble.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1315303980991-6763296.post%40n2.nabble.com

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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, 2011-09-06 10:45

Subject: Re: user permission / authority
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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

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