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Re: denying branch creation in a shared repository

From
Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 19, 2009, 08:51 UTC
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On 2009.10.19 01:32:24 -0700, Mohit Aron wrote:
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> I'm setting up a shared repository and I'd like to prevent users from
> creating branches in it (they can of course create local branches in
> their own clone of this repository). How can I accomplish this ? I
> looked at 'git help config' and it seems I need something similar to
> the parameter receive.denyDeletes - this prevents deletion of
> branches.

You could write a pre-receive or update hook (depending on whether you want the whole push to fail, or just the branch head creation, see githooks(5)).

If a ref is created, the old value is 40 0 (just zeros, forty of them). And if the refname starts with refs/heads/, then a branch head is being created. And in that case, you could refuse the push.

Björn
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  1. Mohit AronOct 19, 2009
  2. Sitaram ChamartyOct 19, 2009
  3. Mohit AronOct 19, 2009
  4. Sitaram ChamartyOct 20, 2009
  5. Björn SteinbrinkOct 19, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 19, 2009
  7. Howard MillerOct 19, 2009
  8. Johannes SchindelinOct 19, 2009
  9. Howard MillerOct 19, 2009
  10. Howard MillerOct 19, 2009
  11. Thomas RastOct 19, 2009
  12. Howard MillerOct 19, 2009

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