Can we restrict the access for sub folders in gitlab?

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Hi

Can we restrict the access for sub folders in gitlab? If i want to restrict access to a particular folder in a repo. is it possible ?

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Hi Ahmad,

Unfortunately, this is not yet possible. If a user has access to view the repo they would be able to view all the folders and files of the repo

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Ok. Thank you !!

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I’m digging this out, but just to add some information.

You actually can setup some subfolder permissions by using git submodule instead of folder.

For exemple:

cd publicRepo/
# Add a non-accessible subdirectory
git submodule add git@.../privateConfig config
git add config .gitmodules

Into the web interface, the non-autorized user will not be able to access to ‘config’ subfolder.