Using gitosis to specify permissions per branch?

Question

With gitosis, is it possible to specify write permissions so that users can push freely to branches with their own name, but not merge with the master? E.g. $USER/test1 .. $

Answer 1

The Gitolite project offers this functionality. It's a rewrite of Gitosis in Perl. Its code can be found on github

When I first wrote this answer, it didn't support gitweb or git-daemon integration, but it does now.