[clug] Using GIT as a 'records system'

[Ben Nizette]

On 23/12/2010, at 8:47 AM, steve jenkin wrote:

> haven't FGFI this yet, thought the group might give me some clues...
> [because I've never used GIT or read the manuals in detail. have a hazy
> overview only.]
> 
> Can GIT allow fine-grained access control to specific trees/sets of files?
> 
> It can obviously store files and add/delete/change 'pages',
> but another essential element of 'Record Management Systems' is access
> control...
> 
> The ordinary worker can't be allowed to see the confidential CEO
> correspondence... (Mergers, downsizing, ...)
> 
> Could this be handled by multiple tree-heads?
> [In SVN they might be called 'tags']

I don't think there's any access control more fine-grained than individual repos, mainly as git doesn't really have much in the way of a concept of files (well no more than is required to make the 'porcelain' layer user-friendly).

I've done this kind of thing in the past using 'git submodule', using that you can leave access controls at a per-repo level but tie the repos together in to what ever logical kind of hierarchy you need.

	--Ben.

> 
> Thanks In Advance.
> 
> steve j
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