On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 15:42, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 15:11, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: >> On 21/04/10 15:06, Chris Browet wrote: >>> The real question is whether it is wanted/desirable to have the myriad >>> of OSM related projects hosted under a single repository (or at least >>> under an "openstreetmap.org <http://openstreetmap.org>" umbrella). >>> I don't actually have any opinion on this. >> >> Well one problem is that managing it will be a pain if we have lots of >> projects as an admin will have to create the repos and things. >> >> The git security model also makes it a pain because it's OS security based >> so would mean adding lots of system users and creating some complicated >> system of group ownership to control who owned each repo. > > If you want to give people ssh:// access it can be (although GitHub, > Gitorious et al manage with git-shell). But are you aware of > git-http-backend(1)? You could set it up to do .htaccess push > authentication via a CGI script exactly like SVN is set up now.
Here's more info on this from GitHub which just rolled it out: http://github.com/blog/642-smart-http-support _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
