Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/3] receive-pack: allow a maximum input size to be specified

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > The simple fix is to call register_tempfile() in open_pack_file(), and
> > just have index-pack clean up the file on its way out.
> >
> > But there are harder cases. For instance, imagine somebody pushes a
> > 500MB file, and you have a pre-receive hook that says "too big; I won't
> > accept this". And then they push in a loop, as before. You've accepted
> > the incoming pack into the repository by the time the pre-receive runs.
> > You can't just delete it, because you don't know if other simultaneous
> > processes have started to depend on the objects.
> >
> > To solve that, I have patches that put incoming packfiles into a
> > "quarantine" area, then run the connectivity check and pre-receive hooks
> > with the quarantine accessible via GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES. And
> > then we either move the quarantine packs into the real repo, or blow
> > away the tmpdir, depending on whether the hooks said the objects were
> > OK.
> >
> > Those are patches I plan to share upstream but just haven't gotten
> > around to yet.
> 
> I think these other patches can come later, independent from this
> three-patch series resurrected from the archive, so I can take a
> reroll of these once the integer-size issues you pointed out are
> sorted out.