The /etc/repo_shell.cfg configuration file is straightforward:
- [core]
owner=repo
git_root=/var/lib/git
svn_root=/var/lib/svn/repositories
+ git_acl_file=/var/lib/git/.gitacls
The owner field denotes the user that owns all repositories. The git_root and
svn_root fields identify the path to the respective repositories. The latter
activating svnperms.conf for branch-based commit control. These are suggestions
outside the scope of the repo_shell program itself.
-Access controls for git are envisioned to be incorporated into repo_shell. They
-aren't at this time, and any developer has read-write access to any git
-repository.
+Access controls for git repositories uses a feature built-into repo_shell. The
+/etc/repo_shell.cfg file lists a parameter git_acl_file, which should be set to
+the name of the git acl file. A recommended name is /var/lib/git/.gitacls, with
+permissions 0400. See git_acl.cfg.example for information on the format of this
+file, which is similar in concept, but different, than subversion's authz.conf
+file format.