Re: Pushing symbolic references to remote repositories?

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 23, 2012, 01:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_iKYb0sK+2+H1b7wAPjJGEhJHJk9eK1bsMqxOGKoJuipg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> This is not limited to HEAD, any ref may want to be set up as a symref
>> at a remote repo.  For example, I want to set up a symref master ->
>> trunk at a repository I have no shell access to.
>
> That is exactly the "hosting side does not give you an easy way so
> pushing seems to be one plausible but not necessarily has to be the
> only way" case, so it is already covered in the discussion.

Just a minor FYI (and at the risk of tooting my own horn) but if the hosting side is gitolite, you can.set it up so that any user with write permissions to the repo can run 'git symbolic-ref' with arbitrary arguments even though he does not get a shell.

The "-m <reason>" has some constraints because gitolite does not allow a lot of characters in arguments to remote commands but that's mostly useless unless you have core.logAllRefUpdates set anyway.