Re: preventing a push

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Christoph Duelli wrote:

I used BK for years, never knew about any level thing. I assume that was some way to introduce an "ordering" between repositories, where you could only push/pull in a controlled manner?

There's no obvious way to do exactly that, but the hooks git has may or may not be ok. For example, if you want to disallow pushing into some repository entirely (because you _only_ expect people to pull into it), you should be able to just make a "pre-receive" hook that always returns false. See Documentation/hooks.txt.

NOTE! There is no way to figure out what the pushing repository status is, which is why I say there is no way to do a "level"-equivalent thing (assuming I guessed what "level" does from the name). However, depending on how you allow people to access the machine, the hook obviously can look at things like $USER or other environment variables (ie you could make it look at what machine the user connected from etc).

But nothing really ever identifies the source repository (on a "git level") for a push: as far as git is concerned, all repositories are equal, and your hooks would invariably have to use non-git knowledge to figure out whether some operation should be allowed or not.

		Linus