[Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Re: Re: How will policy branches work?

[Boris]

On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:20:40 +0200, Brian May <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> > > > > > "Boris" == Boris  <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     Boris> The problem is the co-worker shouldn't be allowed to check  
> out the
>     Boris> files  at all. Management doesn't want anyone else except the
>     Boris> responsible  developers to see the source code. That would  
> need to be
>     Boris> guaranteed by the  version control system - easy if it's a  
> centralized
>     Boris> one, arguably more  difficult if it's a distributed one. I  
> don't know
>     Boris> if this will ever be  possible with monotone (I don't even  
> know if
>     Boris> such a scenario is supported  by any other distributed  
> version control
>     Boris> sytem) but these are the  requirements I face. :)
>
> Maybe I missed something, but do you realize you can control what
> branches people are allowed to *read* from a server?

Yes, you missed something. :) I also need to control what people send each  
other when they synchronize their databases without the central server -  
at least to a certain extent.

Boris