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wish: better access control

Posted Sep 21, 2005 11:08 UTC (Wed) by droundy (subscriber, #4559)
In reply to: wish: better access control by dann
Parent article: Mercurial: an alternative to git

I consider this an advantage of the new VCS (looking from a different perspective). By avoiding
integration of "user accounts" into the VCS itself, you can choose between any of the existing
systems that you already use for user authentication---unix groups, sudo, ssh public key
authentication, gpg signatures. This doesn't give the fine-grained control that you'd like, but I
don't really see a pressing need for that.

David

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wish: better access control

Posted Sep 22, 2005 18:59 UTC (Thu) by Omnifarious (guest, #19508) [Link]

I've come to the conclusion that in a distributed SCM, fine grained access control and permissions management shouldn't be a design goal. There are better and easier ways of achieving the same results with a distributed SCM.

What should be a design goal is clear ownership of a patch or changeset, and that can easily be accomplished in most such systems with digital signatures.