Re: denying branch creation in a shared repository

Hi,

first, if you want to be taken seriously, you might want to avoid to 
top-post.

Second, do diligent research (e.g. on the 'mob' user).

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Howard Miller wrote:

I'm quite interested in this too but I can't see what that patch does at 
all. I'm unsure what the 'mob' account is but a search suggests it's 
something to do with anonymous access, which doesn't seem to make any 
sense.

If this trivial script (_not_ a patch! This should be obvious at first 
sight) does not make any sense to you, I fear you will not be able to use 
hooks to do what you want to do.

Can you explain?

Yes.

The 'mob' user (who is password-less) can push to the 'mob' branch _iff_ 
that exists.  IOW a user of repo.or.cz can decide to let random people to 
push commits by creating the 'mob' branch and adding the 'mob' user to the 
pushers.

The first part of the hook (as you can see from the pretty helpful error 
messages it outputs) is about denying to push to anything but the mob 
branch.

The second part is much more interesting in the context of this thread 
(and I would expect anyone capable of reading shell scripts to see that 
readily), because it denies the 'mob' user to _create_ the 'mob' branch.  
See line 16ff.

So the point is: the update hook gets a "$2" = 0000... in case a branch is 
about to be created, and the hook can prevent that by exiting with a 
non-zero exit code.

Hth,
Dscho