Re: Enhancements to git-protocoll

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 29, 2012, 10:37 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_i7WjrZ=L_LVoTQriW8kKMPd+ABrgowpFCY3ks43E6K7A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120728214116.GA3591@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
> sometimes git communicates with something that's not git on the other
> side (gitolite and github for example).
>
> Sometimes the server wants to communicate directly to the git user.
>
> git isn't really designed for this. gitolite solves this by do user
> interaction on STDERR instead. The bad thing about this is that it can
> only be one-direction communication, for example error messages.
>
> If git would allow for the user to interact direct with the server, a
> lot of cool and and userfriendly features could be developed.
>
> For example:
> gitolite has something called wild repos[1]. The management is
> cumbersome and if you misspell when you clone a repo you might instead
> create a new repo.

For the record, although it cannot do the yes/no part, if you want to disable auto-creation on a fetch/clone (read operation) it's trivial to add a "PRE_CREATE" trigger to do that.