[Kde-scm-interest] Gitorious for KDE

[Patrick Aljord]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
>  The idea is that a private repository is for anything the developer wants. He
>  could be branching kdelibs for some work of his or he could be starting a new
>  app. Or publishing his changes to git itself. It doesn't matter.
>
>  What matters is that we don't waste 250 MB by making him upload all objects of
>  kdelibs again :-)

If the developer decides to "branch" kdelibs maineline he won't be
able to make it private (read-only) cause in git (as you know I
suppose :) branches of a repository are read/write for all. So the
only way to make a private "branch" would be to actually clone it,
that could be done on the server only by pressing a button "private
clone mainline" then the user would have to download the 250MB but not
upload them.
At least that the only way I can see how to do read only branches, ie
by actually making new clone.