How to set specific path permissions using Git?

Question

I'm using Git control version system. I want to set custom permission for a specific folder. For example, user1 can commit/read dir1, user2 can only read dir1 and others cannot read it at all. Is that possible and how? Does GitHub support it?

Answer 1

The design of Git does not allow this kind of access-control. You can create separate repos for dir1 and dir2, and give appropriate permissions for each of those repos, but you can't restrict access to single directories inside a Git repo.