question on service commands in http-backend.c

Hi,

Short version: can I assume that, of all the service commands [I
assume that's what they're called] in the services[] array in
http-backend.c (approx line 530), only 'git-receive-pack' represents a
*write* attempt?

Long version: I just managed to fixup gitolite so it can be used with
smart http also, and after all that was done I got to wondering about
this.  It matters to gitolite because it needs to recognise whether
the user is trying to perform a write or a read so it can make the
correct access control decision.

With ssh it was very simple: you only had 3 command
(git-upload-archive, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack) and the first
2 are "read"s.

And yes, I do notice that these new ones are all "GET" so it is hardly
likely they'd be writes -- just wanted to make sure...

Thanks,

-- 
Sitaram

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Sitaram Chamarty [off-list ref] wrote:

Short version: can I assume that, of all the service commands [I
assume that's what they're called] in the services[] array in
http-backend.c (approx line 530), only 'git-receive-pack' represents a
*write* attempt?

Correct.

And yes, I do notice that these new ones are all "GET" so it is hardly
likely they'd be writes -- just wanted to make sure...

Right.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.