Question

I have a project which our research lab is working, but only a few members can have access to the codes. We are using Git and BitBucket, but we want to use the server lab as our main repository. I have the following constraints:

• We don’t have admin rights;
• Only a few members can have access to the files;
• Every lab member already has its own login in the server.

How can I make this work?

I was thinking to ask the admin to add a group in the server, which would have read/write rights in our Git repository folder. Does it work? Is there a better way to manage these Git repositories with these constraints?

Answer 1

In addition to what Borealid wrote in his answer, you could also use gitolite. It allows you to have much more fine-grained access control (e.g. you can prevent users from deleting your repositories or prevent (some of) them from pushing to certain branches). It doesn’t require root access.