Re: Find the size of git push in pre-receive hook

manigandans <etc.mani@gmail.com> writes:

You don't.

What are you trying to solve?

The thing is, by the time pre-receive-hook is run, the packs have already been transferred to the destination. Otherwise pre-receive-hook cannot do its primary task of inspecting the history the push is trying to update the refs with and allow or deny the ref updates.

Presumably you could run "git rev-list --objects" between the values of refs before and after the proposed updates, sum up their sizes and reject the push when the push adds too much data for your liking, and the next gc will clean things up, but if your goal is to cap the maximum disk quota including the transient use during the time pre-receive-hook is run, it would not help.