Re: [ANNOUNCE] codeBeamer MR - Easy ACL for Git

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Intland Software [off-list ref] wrote:

Petr Baudis wrote:

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I think a lot of people wonder now, how does this compare to existing
solutions; from your announcement I thought it's something like
Gitosis/Gitolite, but in fact it seems more similar to Gitorious or
GitHub (if it was publicly available, of course); perhaps it would be

All right, some quick comparisons with codeBeamer Managed Repository (MR).

* MR against Gitosis

I think you meant "versus" :-)

In terms of access control, MR has the concept of "role", and it makes our
security model more fine grained. Permissions can be set by role. One user
account can have multiple roles. Roles are project-dependent. When you add a
group to a project, you can assign multiple roles to the group (which is
equivalent with assigning those roles to each group member one by one).
On the other hand, MR has a much broader scope than Gitosis. MR helps you to
manage your repos, to track your tasks/bugs/issues, to follow commit
activities, to browse repos in the web, can be extended using its APIs, etc.
(And you don't have to install and maintain Git extensions for this.)

* MR against Gitolite
Pretty much the same applies here as well.

Conceptually, gitolite can do the roles stuff you mentioned,
if I understood it correctly.  Of course, gitolite's access
config is in plain text.

The web-based control, issue tracking, etc., are all on a
different plane from what gitosis/gitolite aim to be.  So
much so that I might even disagree with Pasky on the need to
mention these two products in your website.  Here's one
perspective (in round figures):

gitolite:   1600 lines of shell+perl, 1600 lines of doc
gitosis:    3300 lines of python
MR:         150 MB binary download

I don't honestly see any way to even *begin* to compare :-)

You should stick to gitorious, github, and -- here's a new
one for you -- indefero.

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Sitaram