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Subject: Re: How to send a warning message from git hosting server?
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On 04/12/2015 04:55 PM, Yi, EungJun wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
>> Yi, EungJun <semtlenori@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I want a way to response a remote message when a client send any kind
>>> of request. Is it possible?
>>
>> Yes, though you need a wrapper around git. Recent versions of gitolite
>> have a "motd" message of the day feature.
> 
> It sounds nice. Is the wrapper for git client or git server?

Gitolite is -- in this context -- a wrapper on the git server.

It's main purpose is access control; the motd feature is just an extra that just happened to be easy once there was a wrapper anyway.