Re: [PATCH/RFC] receive-pack: allow for hiding refs outside the namespace

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 30, 2015, 21:31 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmvv0jb67.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151027143207.18755.82151@s-8d3a2f8b.on.site.uni-stuttgart.de>

Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@lfos.de> writes:

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> 1. There does not seem to be a way to pass configuration parameters to
>    git-shell commands. Right now, the only way to work around this seems
>    to write a wrapper script around git-shell that catches
>    git-receive-pack commands and executes something like
>    
>        git -c receive.hideRefs=[...] receive-pack [...]
>    
>    instead of forwarding those commands to git-shell.

This part we have never discussed in the thread, I think. Why do you need to override, instead of having these in the repository's config files?

Is it because a repository may host multiple pseudo repositories in the form of "namespaces" but they must share the same config file, and you would want to customize per "namespace"?

For that we may want to enhance the [include] mechanism. Something like

	[include "namespace=foo"]
        	path = /path/to/foo/specific/config.txt

	[include "namespace=bar"]
        	path = /path/to/bar/specific/config.txt

Cc'ing Peff as we have discussed this kind of conditional inclusion in the past...