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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: kurt_p_lloyd <kplloyd@alcatel-lucent.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Keith Duthie <keith@no.net.nz>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Kevin Green <Kevin.T.Green@morganstanley.com>
Subject: Re: pull/merge --no-commit
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:43:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070607204333.GC14463@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46686B63.6080808@alcatel-lucent.com>

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:32:35PM -0400, kurt_p_lloyd wrote:
> One thing I was thinking might be useful would be a command to make
> (just) my repository unavailable for 'fetch' or 'pull' from others,
> temporarily.  And then a command to make it available again,
> after I finish things that could end up needing "database" surgery,
> like maybe something that could result in having to do a git reset.
> I was thinking maybe something like:
> 
>   $ git config maintenance true
>   .... do something that may end up needing "database" surgery
>   $ git config maintenance false

You could probably do that with file permissions, but...

> Just an idea.  Of course, if something like this already exists ....
> (I'd rather not shut down sshd, nor have to create a separate "public"
>  repository (for certain types of "projects" anyway).)

... why not?  Having a separate public repository also allows you to do
this and much more.  And it should be cheap and easy--if you're worried
about the space, clone with --shared or something.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-07 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-07  4:26 pull/merge --no-commit kurt_p_lloyd
2007-06-07  4:39 ` kurt_p_lloyd
2007-06-07  5:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-07 18:31   ` kurt_p_lloyd
2007-06-07 18:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-07 18:59     ` Kevin Green
2007-06-07 19:12     ` Keith Duthie
2007-06-07 20:32       ` kurt_p_lloyd
2007-06-07 20:43         ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-06-07 20:51         ` Keith Duthie

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