Sampling of Gitolite's power features
The access control examples show the most commonly used feature of Gitolite, the repository and branch level access control, but of course Gitolite has many more features. In this section, we will briefly look at a few of them while noting that there are many more waiting in the wings for you to find as you read this book.
Creating groups
Gitolite allows you to create groups of users or repositories for convenience. Think back to Alice and Bob, our junior developers. Let's say you had several rules that Alice and Bob needed to be mentioned in. Clearly, this is too cumbersome; every time a new developer joined the team, you'd have to change all the rules to add him or her.
Gitolite lets you do this by using the ...
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