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2008/9/23 Mario Pareja <mpareja.dev@gmail.com>:
>> So it's a communication issue then.
>
> Yes, but I think the communication of this information needs to happen
> as part of a developers normal work-flow rather than requiring them to
> remember to check an external system.

Look at pre-receive and update hooks. They can deny a push operation and
get enough information to notice a change to the path of your unlucky file.

And yes, *you* have to do that yourself.