Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Add USER environment variable to executed git commands when serving

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:02:01 -0700

"Robin H. Johnson" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:27:02PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> > You are welcome. An interesting addition would be to propagate allowed
> > branchnames from gitosis.conf. That way you can implement write-
> > protected branches using an update hook.
> ...
> > A nice solution to steer this directly from gitosis.conf? I never got
> > around implementing it.
> Has anybody implemented something like cvs_acls.pl (used by FreeBSD) for
> Git?

contrib/hooks/update-paranoid ?

Perhaps the most flexible, and most paranoid, update hook available.
But it does require that the frontend set some sort of user identity.
I think it relies on UNIX uid, but its easy to hack to use an env
var instead from gitosis.

-- 
Shawn.