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Re: Git and securing a repository

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GGGonzalo Garramuño <ggarra@advancedsl.com.ar>
Date
Jan 2, 2008, 10:39 UTC
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David Symonds wrote:
> 
> You can do arbitrarily-fine-grained authentication via the pre-receive hook.
>

Can you provide some more info? Looking at the kernel.org git docs, the pre-receive hook seems very limited as no parameters are allowed. So I'm not sure how an authentication system could be created.

It also seems to be a push hook only (not invoked on pulls).
-- 
Gonzalo Garramuño
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