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Re: [PATCH] Added hook in git-receive-pack

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jul 31, 2005, 23:33 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0507311627280.14342@g5.osdl.org>
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > No I'm not. Try all the machines behind my firewall.
> 
> Ah, that's true.  Do you push into them?

Yup, I do. I have this thing that I don't do backups, but I end up having redundancy instead, so I keep archives on my own machines and inside the private osdl network, for example.

Also, I suspect that anybody who uses the "CVS model" with git - ie a central repository - is not likely to export that central repository any way: it's the crown jewels, after all. Open source may not have that mindset, but I'm thinking of how I was forced to use CVS at Transmeta, for example: the machine that had the CVS repo was certainly supposed to be very private indeed.

In the "central repo model" you have another issue - you have potentially parallell pushes to different branches with no locking what-so-ever (and that's definitely _supposed_ to work), and I have this suspicion that the "update for dumb servers" code isn't really safe in that setting anyway. I haven't checked.

			Linus
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Message 7 of 15 in “Added hook in git-receive-pack”
  1. Added hook in git-receive-packJosef Weidendorfer, Jul 31, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2005
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 31, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsAug 1, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2005
  11. Josef WeidendorferJul 31, 2005
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2005
  13. Josef WeidendorferAug 13, 2005
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2005
  15. Josef WeidendorferAug 13, 2005

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