Re: Subject: [PATCH] Push to create

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 3, 2009, 07:55 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy6vnf3aw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090303070937.GB30609@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> If you are going to limit it in that way, wouldn't it be better to do it
> entirely client-side? As in, "git push --create remote" will literally
> do:
>
>     ssh remote_host "mkdir -p remote_dir && cd remote_dir && git init --bare"
>
> ? Then you don't have to care about whether the remote side is recent
> enough to support this, and there are no potential security issues; git
> is merely saving you from typing the commands you could have done
> yourself.

As with the previous "git init --remote" patch, my design constraints includes keeping the door open for "git shell" users to optionally allow this mode of operation.

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