From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:20:40 GMT
Subject: Re: How to add daily tags for a central repo?
Message-ID: <20100601222040.GA28776@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinpmkLhbBeqtdK9auG6NfqEsHqPWhrpUL18nFsG@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 05:45:16PM +0800, Roy Lee wrote:
> 
> I've been using reflog locally for some time, but never thought that
> it could be used in this way -- combining with timespec to get the
> timestamps of updates to the server. :)
> 
> The only problem now is that the tag creator might not have the access
> to shell on the central server. To grant the shell access for the tag creator
> may be a quick way to circumvent this. But I think I'll try if git can export
> the reflog to the client in a native way or with some trickery.
 
Have an automated script that creates the tags and runs from cron or somesuch
(or from post-update hook)?

If you don't want to use tags, you can use refs in other namespaces (but these
would still be sent as refs to client, increasing bandwidth usage a bit).

-Ilari