Re: Does git have "Path-Based Authorization"?

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Hello, I'm trying to decide between git and subversion.  Subversion
has "Path-Based Authorization" so I can give a developer access to
only specific files instead of everything.  Does git have something
similar?

Git's model does not allow the same type "Path-Based Authorization" that
Subversion uses, because git uses secure hash sums to make sure that
people don't try to sneak changes into a pull request or merge, and you
can't selectively download parts of the tree because then you couldn't
check that one of your remotes isn't trying to lie to you.

You can do something that is (or can be) similar with git and
gitolite[0] so a developer (or set of developers) only has access to a
particular set of branches. Depending on what exactly you're trying to
do, this can be more or less complicated to set up. If you only want a
set of developers to access the subdirectory
clients/importantsecretclient, then you create that directory only in
the branch or branches that developer can read. There are many examples
int he gitolite wiki.

I have a series of files containing server-side code which make up a
website.  The entire layout contains only a few folders, but those
folders contain many files.  I want to be able to allow access to only
certain files at a time, sometimes only a single file.  Can that be
done in the way you describe?

- Grant

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

HTH

  cmn