On Tuesday 2007 January 23 13:23, Andre Masella wrote: > Okay, say one regular developer wants share his changes with another > developer. He either has to mail patches, create an SSH account, or set up > one of git-daemon or WebDAV. And most of those require knowing the > workstation name which is inconvienient. I would rather have each user able > to push to a branch with their name on it on a central server. So: developer1 is allowed to make changes to central's branch br/developer1, say. How is the central server going to be sure that it is developer1 connecting? Probably a username and password. In which case you have a user account - which is what you would have with ssh. The difference would be that with ssh you would have full access to all the authentication and authorisation mechanisms of a standard UNIX system; LDAP, NIS, timed-logins, etc. If git were to implement authorisation itself then it would need all these modules writing again. I don't know if this would work with git, but once you had real users, you could simply do $ mkdir refs/heads/dev1 $ chown dev1.developers refs/heads/dev1 $ chmod 755 refs/heads/dev1 $ chmod u+s refs/heads/dev1 And then only dev1 would be able to write references in refs/heads/dev1. (The above is untested in git; but with a bit more work I'm sure it could be made to operate) git has a marvellous property that it won't change objects in the object database - it will only add new objects. That makes it more difficult to do actual harm over the git-protocol. For my few users, who already had accounts, and are part of a group, I simply made a group-writeable SGID directory for git repositories, created the repositories, set the config and left them to it. With reflogs turned on, there is no damage they can do that can't be undone. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html