Re: Symbolic refs and the git protocol?

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 25, 2011, 13:42 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_joYUKPXDKyomFdbDP4H0UhcwtNQbC89gvNZOTHowYrLw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E7F29EB.8000800@redhat.com>

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:

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> With the old kernel.org setup, practically the only think I needed to do on
> the server itself is the 'git symbolic-ref' command (used to point
> refs/heads/linux-next at the correct stream).
>
> Now it looks like kernel.org will no longer offer shell access.  Is it
> possible to support symbolic-ref via 'git push'?

Can I assume you mean specifically for HEAD, as in 'git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/some-branch'?

Although gitolite disables shell access by design, it provides several (optionally installed) features to allow specific shell commands to be executed. One such command is "set-head", which does exactly what you ask. You run it like 'ssh git@server set-head reponame.git refs/heads/foo' and it ends up running 'git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/foo' in the repo.

I realise that does not answer "can it be done via git push" but I thought it might help...