Re: [Opinion gathering] Git remote whitelist/blacklist

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 25, 2016, 22:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20160525225214.GA2612@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daURo8SkbeGf0MEsp0sLzdzFfUOxptgusFr58UG9SKmDAA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 09:07:53AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> > So, when trying a forbidden push, Git would deny it and the only way to
> > force the push would be to remove the blacklist from the config, right?
> >
> > Probably the sanest way to go. I thought about adding a "git push
> > --force-even-if-in-blacklist" or so, but I don't think the feature
> > deserves one specific option (hence add some noise in `git push -h`).
> 
> Yeah, I agree --even-if-in-blacklist is a road to madness, but I wonder
> how this is different from setting pushURL to /dev/null or something
> illegal and replace that phony configuration value when you really need
> to push?

That was my thought on reading this, too. In that scheme, you could do:

  git -c remote.foo.pushurl=example.com:repo.git push ...

to override it.  It would be nice if you could do:

  git -c remote.foo.pushurl= push ...

to "unset" the push-url list and default to the regular fetch url, but this is one of those multi-value config options that would have to learn that explicitly.

I suppose one can do:

  git -c remote.foo.pushurl=$(git config remote.foo.url)

but that is getting a bit long.

-Peff