Re: Enforcing clone/fetch to use references.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 05:31:35PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:44:56PM -0700, David Brown wrote:

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Suppose I want to publish some changes to a tree.  I have a server
available where I can run a git daemon, but for one reason or another
I want to force people to use the another git repo as a reference.
The reason could be one of bandwidth, or someone who isn't comfortable
making all of the other source available.  Ideally, someone who
already has the other git repo cloned, and just adds mine as a remote
wouldn't notice the difference.

I think the gentoo people were talking about doing something like this.
They wanted you to use some faster and/or restartable protocol to clone
initially, and so they wanted to reject initial clones. I'm not sure if
they are doing that, and how (from the thread below, I suspect they run
a patched git).

The simplest thing would be a pre-upload-pack hook. There was some
discussion of that in this thread:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/137007

Arun, did you ever get a chance to rework the upload-pack hooks to
work only from git daemon?  If not, I'd like to take a look into
implementing this.

Thanks,
David

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