Re: [PATCH/RFC] receive-pack: allow for hiding refs outside the namespace

Lukas Fleischer [off-list ref] writes:

1. There does not seem to be a way to pass configuration parameters to
   git-shell commands. Right now, the only way to work around this seems
   to write a wrapper script around git-shell that catches
   git-receive-pack commands and executes something like
   
       git -c receive.hideRefs=[...] receive-pack [...]
   
   instead of forwarding those commands to git-shell.

This part we have never discussed in the thread, I think.  Why do
you need to override, instead of having these in the repository's
config files?

Is it because a repository may host multiple pseudo repositories in
the form of "namespaces" but they must share the same config file,
and you would want to customize per "namespace"?

For that we may want to enhance the [include] mechanism.  Something
like

	[include "namespace=foo"]
        	path = /path/to/foo/specific/config.txt

	[include "namespace=bar"]
        	path = /path/to/bar/specific/config.txt

Cc'ing Peff as we have discussed this kind of conditional inclusion
in the past...