Re: building git ; need suggestion

On Friday, March 15, 2013 at 08:52 EDT,
     Joydeep Bakshi [off-list ref] wrote:

On 15-Mar-2013, at 6:14 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

gitolite have a more fine ACL. Check it out. However it doesn't
really meet your needs with web-interface (and I'm not even sure
about the ACL thing is fine enough for you). You can read more about
ACL in the git book: http://git-scm.com/book/ch7-4.html

The webgui that's most populair is cgit and git-web. They don't do
ACL afaik.

Why would you need ACL? Why not don't share the branches that are
going to be secret? Or are you looking for some branches to be read
only?

Actually the branches have to be dedicated to a group of users.
 developer branch ---> developers
bug fixed branch --- > bug fixer

and specific group don't need to RW permission on other branch.
Obviously the admin must have the full permission on all these branches
and merge as per requirement.

Right, but that's R/W permissions. Almost any piece of Git hosting
software supports restriction of pushes. Discriminating *read* access
between developers and maintenance people sounds like a disaster if it's
the same organization. Well, it sounds like a disaster even if there are
two different organizations working on development and maintenance, but
at least it's a reason.

Anyway, Gerrit supports per-branch read ACLs. As long as all changes go
through code review, perhaps Gerrit web interface works sufficiently
well as a repository viewer? Pushes that bypass code review won't show
up there.

http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.5/access-control.html#category_read

The web-interface is required for checking the history by the users
themselves and for code review. I don't know any web interface which
can show repo/branch based on authentication. I have tried gitweb but
it can handle a single repo or multiple repo with single
authentication. NO ACL

If you just have two levels of access you could have two separate
Gitweb sites and use Gerrit to replicate a subset of the branches
to each site. You could e.g. have gitweb-dev.example.com and
gitweb-maint.example.com and grant access to those sites accordingly.

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