From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:49:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Allowing push --dry-run through fetch url
Message-ID: <7vtyx82g2a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091106073707.GA14881@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> So, before I dive in, what would you think about such a feature?

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.

Of course, it is open source and everything can be modified.  You _could_
change the daemon whose primary purpose has been to serve fetch requests
to also support dry-run only push to make what you outlined work.

But isn't it adding unnecessary complexity for no real reason?  It would
be a tough sell, I would imagine.