On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 16:43 -0700, Grant wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to decide between git and subversion. Subversion > has "Path-Based Authorization" so I can give a developer access to > only specific files instead of everything. Does git have something > similar? Git's model does not allow the same type "Path-Based Authorization" that Subversion uses, because git uses secure hash sums to make sure that people don't try to sneak changes into a pull request or merge, and you can't selectively download parts of the tree because then you couldn't check that one of your remotes isn't trying to lie to you. You can do something that is (or can be) similar with git and gitolite[0] so a developer (or set of developers) only has access to a particular set of branches. Depending on what exactly you're trying to do, this can be more or less complicated to set up. If you only want a set of developers to access the subdirectory clients/importantsecretclient, then you create that directory only in the branch or branches that developer can read. There are many examples int he gitolite wiki. [0] https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/wiki/ HTH cmn
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