Re: thoughts on a possible "pre-upload" hook

[Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Adam Brewster <adambrewster@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As git is used more and more in corporate-type environments, at some
>> point it becomes convenient to have *branches* (or more accurately,
>> refs) that are not readable.  The simplest way to do this (from git's
>> point of view) is to allow a "pre-upload" hook, rather like the
>> "pre-receive" hook or "update" hook.
>>
>
> What's the benefit of this over using multiple repositories?

Over a long pm chat over irc with Ilari, I have come to the same
conclusion.  I was hoping there would be some administrative
convenience or workflow convenience to doing this, but whether there
is or not is debatable, and even if there is, there are enough failure
modes to make this have a lot of caveats.

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Sitaram