Gitolite deny access to the directory on the main branch, but not in the user branch

Question

Consider the following repo:

REPO / SRC / A /

REPO / SRC / B /

Is it possible that only 1 repo will fulfill the following restrictions?

• In the main branch, allow full access to the role of attendants.
• In the main branch, deny access to A, but allow role B for contributors.
• In personal branches, allow full access to A and B creators.

Answer 1

With Gitolite V3 or 'g3' and VREF , it should be possible to implement these limitations.

But the access you can control is only for access to the recording.
If the user can clone the repo, he will have read access to all repos (as indicated in " gitolite: allow only selected files to be modified ).
If you really want to restrict read access, you can try gitolite ' partial-copy ' .

A few notes:

• VREF can be used to limit clicks on the dir / file name .
• I use the concept of role , not a group of users: you need to set the permission separately for the specified users.
• Personal branches are described here .

access rule :

 <permission> <zero or more refexes> = <one or more users/user groups> 

<zero or more refexes> means you can combine repos

This will give something like (not verified):

 repo REPO RW+ master = MAINTAINER - master VREF/NAME/A = CONTRIBUTOR RW master VREF/NAME/B = CONTRIBUTOR RW personal/USER/ VREF/NAME/A = CREATOR RW personal/USER/ VREF/NAME/B = CREATOR 

Answer 2

 repo REPO - master VREF/NAME/src/A = @contributors RW+ master = @maintainers @contributors RW+ personal/ = @creators