# Update a bare repository 5 messages from 2007-07-17 to 2007-07-17. Participants: Thomas Glanzmann, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9067 ## Thomas Glanzmann, 2007-07-17 06:30 Subject: Update a bare repository Message-ID: <20070717063026.GA5823@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070717063026.GA5823%40cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ``` Hello, what I would like to do is the following: I have a _bare_ clone of a git repository and would like to update it from Junios repository at kernel.org from time to time. How do I do that? In a way that it is a fire and forget solution? It should also fetch new upstream branches. "git pull" does not work. "git fetch" does, but it does update all references? (faui02) [~/work/repositories/mirror/git.git] git pull fatal: /usr/bin/git-pull cannot be used without a working tree. (faui02) [~/work/repositories/mirror/git.git] git fetch (faui02) [~/work/repositories/mirror/git.git] I also would like to check that it is impossible to push anything to the repository. Thomas ``` ## Jeff King, 2007-07-17 07:04 Subject: Re: Update a bare repository Message-ID: <20070717070428.GA13266@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070717070428.GA13266%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <20070717063026.GA5823@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> ``` On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:30:26AM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > I have a _bare_ clone of a git repository and would like to update it > from Junios repository at kernel.org from time to time. > [...] > "git pull" does not work. "git fetch" does, but it does update all > references? You don't want to pull because that involves merging, which doesn't make sense. A git-fetch is what you want, and you can use wildcards to make sure you get all of the refs. The default is something like this: [remote "origin"] url = git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* However, if you are intending to make this an _exact_ copy of Junio's (because you will be fetching from it with your other, non-bare repos), then you probably don't want the "separate remotes" layout. You want to copy the refs with the same names: [remote "origin"] url = git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* The "+" in both cases means that it copies whatever Junio has, even if it might lose some commits of yours. But that seems to be what you want in this case. > I also would like to check that it is impossible to push anything to the > repository. The simplest thing is not to give write access to the repo for your pushers. However, you could also put in a pre-receive hook that rejects all pushes. -Peff ``` ## Thomas Glanzmann, 2007-07-17 07:26 Subject: Re: Update a bare repository Message-ID: <20070717072635.GG5823@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070717072635.GG5823%40cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de In-Reply-To: <20070717070428.GA13266@coredump.intra.peff.net> ``` Hello, > The "+" in both cases means that it copies whatever Junio has, even if > it might lose some commits of yours. But that seems to be what you > want in this case. thanks a lot. That is exactly what I was looking for. > The simplest thing is not to give write access to the repo for your > pushers. However, you could also put in a pre-receive hook that rejects > all pushes. Is there an example somewhere? Thomas ``` ## Jeff King, 2007-07-17 07:31 Subject: Re: Update a bare repository Message-ID: <20070717073115.GA14629@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070717073115.GA14629%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <20070717072635.GG5823@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> ``` On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:26:35AM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > > The simplest thing is not to give write access to the repo for your > > pushers. However, you could also put in a pre-receive hook that rejects > > all pushes. > > Is there an example somewhere? Not that I know of, but it should be as simple as: echo "echo Sorry, no pushing allowed.; exit 1" >.git/hooks/pre-receive chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-receive -Peff ``` ## Thomas Glanzmann, 2007-07-17 07:41 Subject: Re: Update a bare repository Message-ID: <20070717074112.GH5823@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070717074112.GH5823%40cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de In-Reply-To: <20070717073115.GA14629@coredump.intra.peff.net> ``` Hello Peff, > echo "echo Sorry, no pushing allowed.; exit 1" >.git/hooks/pre-receive > chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-receive thank you, that does exactly what I wanted: (faui03) [/var/tmp/git] git commit -a Created commit 9e89d1d: added some whitespace 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) (faui03) [/var/tmp/git] git push origin updating 'refs/heads/master' from 9dfdf14b3805e89aa2782458bda15b3dfae24c09 to 9e89d1d3890c6b0fd8546143a6e797820e274cb1 Generating pack... Done counting 5 objects. Result has 3 objects. Deltifying 3 objects... 100% (3/3) done Writing 3 objects... 100% (3/3) done Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) Sorry, no pushing allowed. error: hooks/pre-receive exited with error code 1 ng refs/heads/master pre-receive hook declined error: failed to push to '131.188.30.103:/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/mirror/git.git' Thomas ```