Using gitosis to specify permissions per branch?

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Alexandra Franks picture Alexandra Franks · Feb 23, 2009 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

With gitosis, is it possible to specify write permissions so that users can push freely to branches with their own name, but not merge with the master? E.g. $USER/test1 .. $USER/test5

This mean you could host just one repository per project, rather than hosting multiple repositories for the same project, specific to each user:

 project1-user1
 project1-user2
 project1-user3
 ...
 project5-user1
 project5-user2
 project5-user3

Answer

Phil Miller picture Phil Miller · Sep 14, 2009

The Gitolite project offers this functionality. It's a rewrite of Gitosis in Perl. Its code can be found on github

When I first wrote this answer, it didn't support gitweb or git-daemon integration, but it does now.

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