Re: Fetch-hooks

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2018, 01:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20180214013848.GB25188@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180212192327.GA209601@google.com>

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:23:27AM -0800, Brandon Williams wrote:

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> Maybe this isn't helpful but you may be able to implement this by using
> a remote-helper.  The helper could perform any sort of caching it needed
> to prevent re-downloading large amounts of data that is potentially
> thrown away, while only sending through the relevant commits which
> satisfy some criteria (signed, etc.).

Interesting idea, though it would still be calling git-fetch under the hood, right? So I guess we're just reimplementing this "quarantine" concept, but in theory we'd have the flexibility to store that quarantine in another one-off sub-repository (instead of a special ref namespace, though I suppose you could use the special ref namespace, too).

I suspect it could work, but there would probably be a lot of rough edges.

-Peff