Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 17, 2007, 22:55 UTC
Message-ID: <7vprx553u4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071217223055.GI13515@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

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> Hm.  We tell people to set up public repo's by doing something like:
>
> 	git clone --bare ~/proj proj.git
> 	touch proj.git/git-daemon-export-ok
> 	scp -r proj.git example.com:
>
> Is that going to hit the same problem if the public server has an older
> git version?

It will, but I think you should teach people --mirror pushing these days, which was specifically invented for priming the public repository.

That way, the administrator at example.com, as long as he initializes an empty repository with suitable daemon-export-ok and necessary hooks (which can be automated via templates), does not even have to allow you a full ssh access.