Using gitosis to specify permissions per branch?

Question

With gitosis, is it possible to specify write permissions so that users can push freely to branches with their own name, but not merge with the master? E.g. $USER/test1 .. $

Answer 1

Gitosis controls access to repositories, but not by branch or commit. So you could put the master in a repo by itself which had read-only access and let users push their individual branches to another repo ( or one per user, as you say). I haven't seen anyone extend gitosis for finer-grain control.

If you really need to restrict your users' access that much and you want to use Git, then perhaps you should only take patches by e-mail and keep your repo as read-only.