Mercurial set up ACL

Question

I'm trying to set up ACL. I've got it mostly working. However, I've got a couple of specific questions.

Basically, I'm trying to set up a group @group that will be allowed to access a bunch of branches of the form xxxx-integration-xxxx. What I want to do is:

[acl.allow.branches]
*integration* = @group

However, that doesn't seem to work. Is there an easy way to do this?

Also, is there a better place to ask this? I asked some similar questions on stackoverflow, and got nothing.

Answer 1

After enabling the extension, you can run hg help acl to read its help (it's unfortunately not included in the wiki page). There you'll find this section:

Branch-based Access Control

Use the acl.deny.branches and acl.allow.branches sections to have branch-based access control. Keys in these sections can be either:

• a branch name, or
• an asterisk, to match any branch;

So, you cannot use general glob-patterns here. It sounds like a nice feature request, though, so I suggest you submit it in the Mercurial bug tracker.