Re: Enhancements to git-protocoll

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 30, 2012, 01:45 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_gQWkvmL59aDYMOL1zUv04Wf7WcV7dEi9Uz6=UP9g7AOA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> As I may have said earlier, this interaction is far too site-specific
>> to be rolled into git itself.
>>
>> How about a new hook instead?  A pre-pack-protocol hook that acts as
>> if it was called by the remote user as a command, and if it exit's
>> with 0, then the real pack protocol starts else it gets aborted.  Let
>> him do whatever he wants in there.  Arguments to the hook will be repo
>> name and command (git-upload-pack mainly).
>
> Not very interested.  If it is _known_ to happen before Git protocol
> proper happens, why not give the user something like the gitolite
> command "D", that is interpreted by gitolite-shell without bothering
> Git at all?

Indeed. In one of the earlier messages I already told him he should copy and munge the fork command in gitolite to do precisely this.