Mercurial - possible to do restrictions?

I'm looking into using Mercurial (I've had enough of SVN merge). Is it possible to have a repo wherein individuals are restricted to what they have access to? For example, a frontend developer would only have access to HTML and CSS files, etc.

I guess I a开发者_JAVA技巧m looking for something like: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.serverconfig.httpd.html

Due to distributed nature of Mercurial it is not possible to do. User either has read permissions to the whole repository, or not.

About writes: it is possible to control this on server side with hooks though, but in this case it will be a big headache for developers who made changes by accident or had to do them and got blocked because of lack of permissions to push (thus continue working)

• ACL extension can help
• You can also split repo on separate repos and join parts into big project with subrepos (or just have more than one repo in paths and perform pulls from all)