It can't be done with the Google Code toolset -- hiding the development process generally goes against the spirit of Open Source. In any case, it's probably more complex and time-consuming to keep the development private.
That being said, you might have some luck keeping a private repository, and using some of the existing SVN tools to support your needs. I would imagine that you could use svnadmin dump and dumpfilter tools to prune out the unwanted dev branches, and then svnsync to the public site. As an alternative, you could use Git's subversion tracking functionality to only follow one branch. You could probably manage to update from the dev svn repository, then do some kind of git-svn switch, followed by a rebase and dcommit to the public repository. As another alternative, just wait patiently for the much anticipated Distributed Version Control System support and then do a mix of private development with pushes of the master/public branch to the public repository. In any case, these approaches are all harder than just keeping the whole thing public. If you're just worried about people using broken code, you can just make sure that developers know that they need to keep "trunk" stable and compiling, with extra branches for dev, unstable, stable, and release. Out of curiousity, what are your reasons for favouring partially closed development? On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:53 AM, thorsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for a swift response. > > OK, Ill do that. > > A second question: > > I would like to restrict access to the repository so that read only > users only have access to a certain branch. We have several branches > but we only want open access to the release branch. Can this be done? > > Thanks, > Thor Andreas > > On Nov 18, 7:33 pm, "Daniel O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Not currently, though you could file this as a feature request against >> our support project:http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/list >> >> Daniel >> >> On Nov 18, 8:03 am, thorsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi >> >> > Is it possible to track the number of checkouts from the read only >> > repository? >> >> > Thanks, >> > Thor Andreas > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
