Re: Advices to imlement update hook

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 9, 2011, 16:51 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTik=Xw3b1i-AranJtfngOsfLvEDSzrMq3jKTy-Yy@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D52C403.30501@viscovery.net>

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:

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> [Sorry, sent too early - fat fingers :-(]
>
> Am 2/9/2011 17:38, schrieb Johannes Sixt:
>> Am 2/9/2011 17:27, schrieb Francis Moreau:
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> I'd like to restrict access to one of my repos: the project tracked by
>>> it has several directories: a/ b/ c/ and I'd like to allow only
>>> modifications happen in b/ directory.
>>>
>>> I'm planning to use git hooks, not sure which one I should use: if the
>>> check should happen at the commit or push time or both.
> ...
>>> I also tried:
>>>
>>>    git diff-tree <oldref> <newref> -- ^b || exit 1
>>>
>>> but it doesn't work.
>>
>>   git diff-tree --quiet <oldref> <newref> -- b
>
> should do it; it sets the exit code.

but does that work if a commit modify b/ and another directory ?

> But don't you also want to inspect all commits between oldref and newref?

Yes I want to inspect all commits in the range.

> Someone could have modified the directory, and then reverted the
> modification in a later commit. If these commits arrive in a single push,
> the above code wouldn't notice this.

I agree but I thought that git diff-tree would list all changes made between the 2 refs.

Thanks

-- 
Francis