Git Permissioning

gitpermissions

I'd like to give a designer commit access to the html/css/images etc for a project I'm working on. The problem is the git repository which stores this information is also shared with the general code base which I'd prefer the designer not have access to as they have no need for it.

In SVN I'd resolve this by simply permissioning directories within the repository to be accessible by certain people only. As far as I'm aware this isn't possible in git due to the different structure, you either have the entire repo or you don't.

What's the recommended way to complete this? How are others getting around this problem?

Thanks

Best Answer

Either learn to live with the designer having access to the code (they can't change anything without leaving a record of it, anyway), or else split out the stuff they do need access to into a separate repo and then include that in your main project as a submodule. You can use git filter-branch to strip out the parts of the repository you don't want the designer to have access to in the separate repo.

Related Solutions

Git – Using Etckeeper with a Single Shared Git Repository

First, use install etckeeper, configured for git in /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf. Follow etckeeper's install method for your distro or from source.

Soon, you'll have a /etc/.git

Now on on your server, make sure you have a (safe) repo to push to...

 # ssh faruser@farhost     
 # mkdir somedir cd somedir && git init && chmod 700 .git    
 # exit

Now on the initial host, push your local repo to the server via ssh:

# cd /etc && git push faruser@farhost:somedir

Somedir can of course be relative in this case (following ssh convention)

Do this any time you make a change that affects /etc (and is snarfed into /etc/.git by etckeeper) and you'll have both local and off-machine repos for your machine.

Or set up passwordless ssh and make a hook in /etc/etckeeper/commit.d/ so it happens automagically if the machine is always connected.

Ssh – Permission problem with Git (over SSH) on FreeBSD

Off the top of my head, possibly a umask issue?

Have you considered wrapping git with gitosis (http://vafer.org/blog/20080115011413)? I've found it a much more pleasant way of working with Git (no permissions headaches since the repo is owned by one OS user), and the permissions you can implement using gitosis are an attractive bonus.

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Related Solutions

Git – Using Etckeeper with a Single Shared Git Repository

Ssh – Permission problem with Git (over SSH) on FreeBSD

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