Re: Enforcing clone/fetch to use references.
From: Arun Raghavan <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:36
Hey David, On 22 September 2010 03:42, David Brown [off-list ref] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 05:31:35PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:quoted
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:44:56PM -0700, David Brown wrote:quoted
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/137007Arun, 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.
I never did get a chance to finish work on this. The last IRC discussion we had about this is at http://dev.gentoo.org/~ford_prefect/git-hooks-discussion-log.txt We still definitely do need this in Gentoo for when our git migration happens. Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)