# Can git restrict source files ? 3 messages from 2013-02-19 to 2013-02-19. Participants: Juan Pablo, Matthieu Moy, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/32944 ## Juan Pablo, 2013-02-19 16:06 Subject: Can git restrict source files ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/DE551AEA-5C7D-4A2D-8AB4-33195EF351F8%40gmail.com ``` Hi, I have a question, can i control the access to specific files or folders ?? I need that some developers can't see some source files, thank you very much for your time Enviado desde mi iPhone ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2013-02-19 16:17 Subject: Re: Can git restrict source files ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpq4nh8p9bj.fsf%40grenoble-inp.fr In-Reply-To: ``` Juan Pablo writes: > Hi, > > I have a question, can i control the access to specific files or > folders ?? I need that some developers can't see some source files, > thank you very much for your time No, you can't. You can use e.g. gitolite to set up access control for a branch, but Git needs access to the complete tree. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ``` ## Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2013-02-19 17:55 Subject: Re: Can git restrict source files ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CACBZZX7tHpUzW8pKjLi_4qm8w-n%3DFjResyRwZPK9qsyUzqpsMw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Juan Pablo wrote: > I have a question, can i control the access to specific files or folders ?? I need that some developers can't see some source files, thank you very much for your time No, but what you can do is to split these up into different repositories. E.g. where I work we have a puppet.git and a secrets.git, the latter contains passwords and other secret data, the former just uses macros to include that and is accessible to everyone. ```