Re: gitosis-lite

Sitaram Chamarty [off-list ref] writes:

Hello all,

I created a new project called gitosis-lite, which combines
the essential pieces of gitosis with the per-branch
permissions stuff in the example in the howto directory of
git.git.

The config file is different, (there's an annotated example
you can look at).

The "why" and the "what" are all at
http://github.com/sitaramc/gitosis-lite

Could you add information about this tool (perhaps after confirmation
/ deciding on project name[1]) to Git Wiki page
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
somewhere below Gitosis?  Please do not forget to include that it is
written in Perl; see other entries for example.


You wrote in project's README.markdown that you were inspired by
Gitosis (which requires Python and python-setuptools) and
Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt (which uses bash).
Why not contrib/hooks/update-paranoid (which is written in Perl)?

Using Perl code for configuration is simple and fast, but not very
secure.  Why not use git config format (via "git config -l -z" like in
gitweb), or YAML or JSON (or Storable)?  Well, YAML might be overkill.

BTW. if you blog about gitosis-lite (http://sitaramc.blogspot.com/)
it could be picked up by Perl Iron Man Blogging challenge, and you
could get wider review.

[1]: gitosis-lite doesn't look like CPAN-y name.  Git::Admin perlhaps?
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