how to protect my source while allowing a new developer to work in Git

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I've got a new developer who I'm concerned might hurt our git repository (by checking into master for example) if we give him r/w access to our bitbucket repo. I want him to be able to check in to his branch only and be able to merge master changes to his branch, but I don't want him to be able to commit to the master branch.

posted Jun 6, 2013 by anonymous

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Git does not support branch permissions. The best way to deal with that kind of permissions-thingy is to create two repos : a main repo and a fork for your new developer. He would only have permissions to pull from the main repo but could do "pull-request" to the main repo. That way you could review his work
before merging it into the main one.

answer Jun 6, 2013 by anonymous

Git doesnt provide such thing by default. To achieve that, you should use external software, like gitosis or gitolite.

answer Jun 6, 2013 by anonymous

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