Re: [RFC/PATCH] shell: allow 'help' command to disable interactive shell

Ethan Reesor [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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Ethan Reesor [off-list ref] writes:

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Again, would it not be more elegant and powerful to A) have the
shell-disabled message/hook/etc specified by git-config on some level,
be it /etc/gitconfig or ~/.gitconfig, and B) have Jonathan's patch
whereby ~/git-shell-commands/help returning non-zero closes the
connection?

Isn't that what I have essentially been saying?

That is what you've been saying. I reiterated because I like the idea
of having it managed via git config.

Yes, and I've been ignoring the "git config".  I do not think it
gives enough customizability Jonathan's example of listing user
owned repositories, for example.  Having a config variable in
/etc/gitconfig that points at a random script on the filesystem does
not buy us much over an approach to have a global hook at a known
place on the filesystem, no?