GIT Permissions [closed]

Question

There is something not clear for me and this is how to prevent other people read my code. The thing is that I want people create their own branches but not to view the other's branches. If someone is responsible for networking, I don't want this guy to view graphics codes. S/He must be forced to work on his branch only.

Answer 1

You could let each individual create their section of the code in a submodule and then include all of the submodules into the main project. This would add a lot of complexity to the whole process though.

The git-submodule has this to say about them:

Submodules allow foreign repositories to be embedded within a dedicated subdirectory of the source tree, always pointed at a particular commit.

You create a submodule just as you would a normal repo and include it in the main repo like so:

git submodule add <repository>

where <repository> is the url to the repo to include.

The main question is why do you need to enforce this level of isolation and what happens if one part of the project has a dependancy on another one?

Edit

As the questioner has indicated that they want to protect IP from third party espionage action I have the following suggestion:

In stead of extracting the code for each person into a separate repository tree have the main IP that you want to keep separate contained in a "black box" library and have the development of that take place on a private repository by trusted developers. The untrusted developers can then develop the code that consumes this library in a less restricted repository.

This approach would have the advantage of requiring fewer repositories which will hopefully ease the process of development somewhat.