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gitosis and gitolite should support git-annex being used to send/receive
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files from the repositories they manage. Users with read-only access
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could only get files, while users with write access could also put and drop
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files.
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Doing this right requires modifying both programs, to add [[git-annex-shell]]
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to the list of things they can run, and only allow through appropriate
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git-annex-shell subcommands to read-only users.
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I have posted an RFC for modifying gitolite to the
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[gitolite mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/gitolite?lnk=srg).
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> I have not developed a patch yet, but all that git-annex needs is a way
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> to ssh to the server and run the git-annex-shell command there.
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> git-annex-shell is very similar to git-shell. So, one way to enable
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> it is simply to set GL_ADC_PATH to a directory containing git-annex-shell.
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>
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> But, that's not optimal, since git-annex-shell will send off receive-pack
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> commands to git, which would bypass gitolite's permissions checking.
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> Also, it makes sense to limit readonly users to only download, not
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> upload/delete files from git-annex. Instead, I suggest adding something
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> like this to gitolite's config:
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# If set, users with W access can write file contents into the git-annex,
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# and users with R access can read file contents from the git-annex.
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$GL_GIT_ANNEX = 0;
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> If this makes sense, I'm sure I can put a patch together for your
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> review. It would involve modifying gl-auth-command so it knows how
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> to run git-annex-shell, and how to parse out the "verb" from a
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> git-annex-shell command line, and modifying R_COMMANDS and W_COMMANDS.
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As I don't write python, someone else is needed to work on gitosis.
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--[[Joey]]
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> [[done]]; support for gitolite is in its `pu` branch, and some changes
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> made to git-annefor gitolite is in its `pu` branch, and some changes
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> made to git-annex. Word is gitosis is not being maintained so I won't
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> worry about try to support it. --[[Joey]]
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