# How to send a warning message from git hosting server? 5 messages from 2015-04-05 to 2015-04-15. Participants: Yi, EungJun, Junio C Hamano, Tony Finch, Sitaram Chamarty. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/39009 ## Yi, EungJun, 2015-04-05 15:04 Subject: How to send a warning message from git hosting server? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAFT%2BTg-Gwr9EemFv88%2B%3DAo21dGYe73D-CDiT4mXU4kuP-niOSw%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hello. I am serving a git hosting service for my company. Sometimes I want to send a warning message to users who use my service; e.g. the service will be shutdown tomorrow for a while temporary. I know it is possible to a remote message by hooks or HTTP body if an error occured. But it seems that there is no hooks for git-fetch and git does not print HTTP body if there is no error. I want a way to response a remote message when a client send any kind of request. Is it possible? -EungJun ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2015-04-05 20:18 Subject: Re: How to send a warning message from git hosting server? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqzj6mcorc.fsf%40gitster.dls.corp.google.com In-Reply-To: ``` "Yi, EungJun" writes: > Hello. I am serving a git hosting service for my company. > > Sometimes I want to send a warning message to users who use my > service; e.g. the service will be shutdown tomorrow for a while > temporary. > > I know it is possible to a remote message by hooks or HTTP body if an > error occured. But it seems that there is no hooks for git-fetch and > git does not print HTTP body if there is no error. > > I want a way to response a remote message when a client send any kind > of request. Is it possible? I do not offhand know if there are such hooks, but I would imagine that I'd be mightily annoyed if I were forced to interact with such a server. I may not have a need to pull anything for a few days, working on my changes, and then I'd find out when the service is already down. I may pull many times a day, and for a few days of pre-announcement period, I'd be forced to see the same message over and over. I may have a cron job to fetch down the changes made by coworkers in other timezones while I am sleeping so that I can start my day from an up-to-date state, but it is very likely I would say "fetch --quiet" in the cron job because I want it to be quiet unless there is an error. I'd appreciate if the Gitmasters at the company sent an e-mail addressed to git-users@mycompany.xz instead. ``` ## Tony Finch, 2015-04-08 11:08 Subject: Re: How to send a warning message from git hosting server? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LSU.2.00.1504081206420.10193%40hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk In-Reply-To: ``` Yi, EungJun wrote: > > I want a way to response a remote message when a client send any kind > of request. Is it possible? Yes, though you need a wrapper around git. Recent versions of gitolite have a "motd" message of the day feature. http://gitolite.com/gitolite/list-non-core.html#triggers Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ Fisher: Northwest backing southwest 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Slight or moderate. Fog patches. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor. ``` ## Yi, EungJun, 2015-04-12 11:25 Subject: Re: How to send a warning message from git hosting server? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAFT%2BTg9La03dkteQT0YOPPKdR78w89385VfOGN2B9kLGPo7Kcg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Tony Finch wrote: > Yi, EungJun wrote: >> >> I want a way to response a remote message when a client send any kind >> of request. Is it possible? > > Yes, though you need a wrapper around git. Recent versions of gitolite > have a "motd" message of the day feature. It sounds nice. Is the wrapper for git client or git server? ``` ## Sitaram Chamarty, 2015-04-15 10:28 Subject: Re: How to send a warning message from git hosting server? Message-ID: <552E3D64.8090501@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/552E3D64.8090501%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On 04/12/2015 04:55 PM, Yi, EungJun wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Tony Finch wrote: >> Yi, EungJun wrote: >>> >>> I want a way to response a remote message when a client send any kind >>> of request. Is it possible? >> >> Yes, though you need a wrapper around git. Recent versions of gitolite >> have a "motd" message of the day feature. > > It sounds nice. Is the wrapper for git client or git server? Gitolite is -- in this context -- a wrapper on the git server. It's main purpose is access control; the motd feature is just an extra that just happened to be easy once there was a wrapper anyway. ```