Git Version Control - Views on Repositories?

Question

I have a repositories, i want to have two "views": Developers can see the whole thing and customers should only see certain (tagged, or marked in another way) branches.

I thought about making two repsoitories A and B and than list all not needed files as "ignored files" in B but I am not sure whether this will work. (I don't know whether A syncs B's ignored files or not, may be some one who knows that can answer?)

Thus I thought it would be cool if i I could make "views" (show only tags X..) on the repository, or something similar which solves my problem, but afaik this is not possbile in git.

kind regards

Answer 1

Branches in git are local.

You can have any number of branches locally and push only the relevant ones to the relevant repositories.

alt text http://nvie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-24-at-11.32.03.png

The image above from http://nvie.com/git-model is a good workflow, in which developers have many branches but push only the develop branch and similarly the production server has only the master branch.

Answer 2

Nevertheless my major problem remains:
if I clone repository A to B and I work on repository B than I see all branches of repository A (they are marked as remots/origin/[branchName]) - so if a customer starts GitWeb on Repository B he will see all Branches. And that's what I don't want.

You can manage access per repository with gitosis, and even access per tag or branch with gitolite.