On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Zeev Pekar <z.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2) is it possible to deny access to folders of the source tree to > certain users and grant access to the rest of the folders? (like in > gitolite) > > With Fossil (or git or hg or mtn or bzr) each user has their own complete copy of the repository on their local machine. And so each user can do anything they want to their local copy of the repo and there is nothing you the administrator can do to prevent it. That's the nature of DVCS. Gitolite says it provides per-directory "write" permissions on the central repo. "read" permission is always per-repo. I presume they do this by denying push to repos that have modified directories that they are forbidden to modify. Or perhaps they are playing some really nasty games with rebase. But probably the former. Fossil does not do that and I have precious little motivation to make it do that. Fossil strives to be low-ceremony. By that I mean that you don't need a lot of central administrator setup and permission in order to participate in a Fossil-hosted project. The idea is that you trust your developers to do the right thing, to follow the rules you have created for your project, and to not modify files which they are not permitted to modify. This is not an unreasonable idea, since if you cannot trust your developers then you have way more serious problems. To complement its low-ceremony operating principle, Fossil also maintains a detailed and immutable audit trail and tools to detect and reverse undesirable changes and promote situational awareness. So if a developer does break the rules by checking into the wrong directory, he will be found out, the changes can be backed out, and the rogue developer can be dealt with administratively. I have used both low-ceremony and high-ceremony systems and I have found that the low-ceremony designs yield less frustration and greater productivity, which is why Fossil is designed to be low-ceremony and why I am so unmotivated to give it high-ceremony features. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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