Re: Fetch-hooks

>>
>> Is there a way for “pre-receive” to individually filter [refs]? I was
>> under the impression that the only way to do that was to use the
>> “update” hook, which was the reason I wanted to model it after “update”
>> rather than “pre-receive” (my use case being a check independent for
>> each pushed ref)
> 
> No, pre-receive is always atomic. However, that may actually be what you
> want, if the point is to keep untrusted data out of the repository. By
> rejecting the whole thing, we could in theory keep the objects from
> entering the repository at all. This is how the push side works via the
> "quarantine" system (which is explained in git-receive-pack(1)).
> Fetching doesn't currently quarantine objects, but it probably wouldn't
> be very hard to make it do so.