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