Re: Enhancements to git-protocoll

[Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 04:07:13PM +0530, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > sometimes git communicates with something that's not git on the other
> > side (gitolite and github for example).
> >
> > Sometimes the server wants to communicate directly to the git user.
> >
> > git isn't really designed for this. gitolite solves this by do user
> > interaction on STDERR instead. The bad thing about this is that it can
> > only be one-direction communication, for example error messages.
> >
> > If git would allow for the user to interact direct with the server, a
> > lot of cool and and userfriendly features could be developed.
> >
> > For example:
> > gitolite has something called wild repos[1]. The management is
> > cumbersome and if you misspell when you clone a repo you might instead
> > create a new repo.
> 
> For the record, although it cannot do the yes/no part, if you want to
> disable auto-creation on a fetch/clone (read operation) it's trivial
> to add a "PRE_CREATE" trigger to do that.

Thanks, however I think auto-creation is a great feature for some cases
and I think there can be even more useable functions if we could get
user interaction.

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