Re: Reason for objects still being written with a failing pre-receive hook?

["Johan Sørensen" <johan@johansorensen.com>]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Shawn O. Pearce<spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Johan S?rensen <johan@johansorensen.com> wrote:
>> I'm wondering what the reason is that objects are still being stored,
>> despite a non-zero exit code from the pre-receive hook?
>
> The pre-receive hook is allowed to inspect the objects that have
> been uploaded in order to make its access decision.  Thus those
> objects must have been unpacked (or indexed into a new pack) so
> git commands in the pre-receive hook can read them.

Yeah, noticed that after I started digging into the code a bit

>> If it's expected and accepted behaviour, what other options do I have
>> to prevent a scenario like the above?
>
> There currently isn't a way to stop this, other than to use something
> in front of git-receive-pack, e.g. Gitosis, to deny even forking
> the receive-pack binary for the user.

Well, I already wrote such a thing (Gitorious.org) but I want to take
the auth a little bit further and offer some more fine-grained
access-controls and discovered the above during some smoke testing.

>
> --
> Shawn.

Thanks
JS