Re: Init on push

From: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 8, 2008, 20:01 UTC
Message-ID: <bb6f213e0811081201w22a36800j1713b91d0cf66fb2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7viqqyc93w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> An easy alternative would be to issue the usual "mkdir && git init" shell
> script before spawning receive-pack.  This will limit the feature to
> pushing over the ssh transport, and pushing over the git protocol against
> a loose git-daemon will not be able to support it.  Also I suspect this
> will break sites managed by gitosis, where all repositories are held under
> the same UNIX user identity, differenciated only via an environment it
> sets based on the ssh key used to make the connection.

Gitosis works by replacing the shell with a program called gitosis-serve, which parses and validates the incoming commands against the user access configuration. If it sees an unknown command, it will simply refuse to execute it.

On the other hand it will automatically perform initialization before calling receive-pack if the user is authorized to write to a certain path, but the repository does not exist yet.

Alexander