Re: denying branch creation in a shared repository

From: Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
Date: Oct 19, 2009, 10:08 UTC
Message-ID: <26ae428a0910190308t3233debdjfc0c8beedb9c0ac6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910191155310.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Hi,

I'm quite interested in this too but I can't see what that patch does at all. I'm unsure what the 'mob' account is but a search suggests it's something to do with anonymous access, which doesn't seem to make any sense.

Can you explain?

Thanks!

2009/10/19 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Mohit Aron wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> The easiest way to accomplish things is to look who had the same problem
> and solved it:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/repo.git?a=blob;f=update-hook;h=98b419ecad61f6c80f;hb=6f92e96db0d605bed50db99029172607af301792#l16
>
> Hth,
> Dscho
>
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