From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:02:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Allowing push --dry-run through fetch url
Message-ID: <7v4op82fh0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091106085917.GA497@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:49:49AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The daemon sitting on the other end to serve "git://" URL won't understand
>> an attempt to push into.  What goes over the wire in the fetch protocol
>> does not give your updated "git push" enough information to guess what
>> would happen if you pushed.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but the only missing thing I can see at
> first thought is whether the server is going to reject non fast-forward
> updates. Are there any others ?

Hooks, for a starter.