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Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/9] Push limits
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 23:52:10 +0200
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 23:37, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> wrote:
> Here's the next iteration of what started out as a simple patch to le=
t
> the server refuse pushes that exceeded a configurable limit on the
> #objects in a pack.
>
> The current patch series allows limiting pushes by
> =C2=A0- size of pack
> =C2=A0- #objects in pack
> =C2=A0- #commits in pack

=46WIW I'd find this very useful. I recently spent a fair amount of tim=
e
cleaning up the mess created by a user pushing all the tags from
repository A to repository B (don't ask), the options you've
implemented here would have stopped that.

And as you point out even if you refuse these sort of things with a
hook (which I later implemented) that doesn't stop the server from
accepting the objects and keeping them around.