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push --mirror on post-receive hook?

Subject: push --mirror on post-receive hook?

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2 messages between May 12, 2011 and May 13, 2011.

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Jordi Bunster· May 12, 2011, 21:35 UTC · lore

Is it safe to call push --mirror $SOME_REMOTE on a post-receive hook? Is push always safe for the source repo?

Ilari Liusvaara· May 13, 2011, 08:25 UTC · re: Jordi Bunster · lore

Re: push --mirror on post-receive hook?

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 02:35:15PM -0700, Jordi Bunster wrote:

> Is it safe to call push --mirror $SOME_REMOTE on a post-receive hook?
> Is push always safe for the source repo?

Yes, it is safe, apart from potential hang if $SOME_REMOTE can't be contacted (it can take minutes for the TCP connect() to time out).

-Ilari

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