Re: denying branch creation in a shared repository

[Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>]

And... I instantly have to apologise..  With wonderful irony,
Googlemail folded the helpful bit of your reply leaving just the
(apparently) unhelpful bit.

(Crawls under nearest rock).

2009/10/19 Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>:
> Mmm....
>
> Thanks for the helpful reply Johannes. Perhaps you should do diligent
> research into mail software that folds quoted text for you. There's a
> company called Google you might have heard of. Just a thought.
>
> On the other hand if you can't be bothered making a helpful reply
> rather than a rude one perhaps simply not writing anything at all
> would, at the very least, leave us absolutely no worse off. Just the
> opinion of someone not to be taken seriously.... of course!
>
> Howard
>
> 2009/10/19 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> first, if you want to be taken seriously, you might want to avoid to
>> top-post.
>>
>> Second, do diligent research (e.g. on the 'mob' user).
>>
>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Howard Miller wrote:
>>
>>> I'm quite interested in this too but I can't see what that patch does at
>>> all. I'm unsure what the 'mob' account is but a search suggests it's
>>> something to do with anonymous access, which doesn't seem to make any
>>> sense.
>>
>> If this trivial script (_not_ a patch! This should be obvious at first
>> sight) does not make any sense to you, I fear you will not be able to use
>> hooks to do what you want to do.
>>
>>> Can you explain?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> The 'mob' user (who is password-less) can push to the 'mob' branch _iff_
>> that exists.  IOW a user of repo.or.cz can decide to let random people to
>> push commits by creating the 'mob' branch and adding the 'mob' user to the
>> pushers.
>>
>> The first part of the hook (as you can see from the pretty helpful error
>> messages it outputs) is about denying to push to anything but the mob
>> branch.
>>
>> The second part is much more interesting in the context of this thread
>> (and I would expect anyone capable of reading shell scripts to see that
>> readily), because it denies the 'mob' user to _create_ the 'mob' branch.
>> See line 16ff.
>>
>> So the point is: the update hook gets a "$2" = 0000... in case a branch is
>> about to be created, and the hook can prevent that by exiting with a
>> non-zero exit code.
>>
>> Hth,
>> Dscho
>>
>>
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