Question

In git , how to clone a repositroy to another new repository with read only option is there any way to do it.are there any switches to do this

    git clone base-url new-url-with read only access 

I do not want to do it with chmod command

Answer 1

The chmod command is your friend, as is the umask command.

Git itself does not have any access control, because the operating system and/or access protocol already has one, so it would be redundant. In fact, access to git repository may not involve git (it can even be pulled or even pushed with rsync), so git can’t control access.