Is there any value to per-Fedora branch ACLs?

[Jesse Keating]

On 12/07/2010 10:27 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> The pkgdb interface distinguishes them.  Apparently there was some
> motivation for that in the first place.  If the git hooks are not
> going to distinguish them, then pkgdb should change not to either.

Currently the git ACLs do enforce per-branch ACLs.  It does make the acl
config rather lengthy and the logic behind it a bit cumbersome, but it
works.

> 
> In my own experience, I've never put someone on any ACL for a package whom
> I wouldn't trust to respect informal agreements about who should do what
> commits to which branches.  So any finer granularity on the ACL enforcement
> is to avoid accidental braino commits, if anything.

Since it's so easy to undo things in git I think this is less of a concern.

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