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> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Tajti Ákos<akos.tajti@intland.com> wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> we wrote a servlet that is basically a proxy for git-http-backend. We want
>> to control who can create a new branch. Is there a way to reject a push that
>> would create a new branch (without using hooks)?
> Not sure what else your servlet does or how it affects things but
> gitolite has controls to prevent branches being created (among many
> many other things, limited mostly by ones imagination!).
>
> Gitolite is normally used with ssh but it has been tested with smart
> http also. It itself acts as a proxy for git-http-backend, inspecting
> the URI and QUERY_STRING and such animals to decode some things, while
> the rest happens via a special update hook that is installed in each
> repo that it controls.
>
> (Specifically, the branch create check is done there, not in the part
> that is proxying the git-http-backend process. You probably know that
> the update hook is invoked by git itself).
>
> Sitaram