From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
John Hawley <warthog19@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Symbolic refs and the git protocol?
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:12:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_joYUKPXDKyomFdbDP4H0UhcwtNQbC89gvNZOTHowYrLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E7F29EB.8000800@redhat.com>
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> With the old kernel.org setup, practically the only think I needed to do on
> the server itself is the 'git symbolic-ref' command (used to point
> refs/heads/linux-next at the correct stream).
>
> Now it looks like kernel.org will no longer offer shell access. Is it
> possible to support symbolic-ref via 'git push'?
Can I assume you mean specifically for HEAD, as in 'git symbolic-ref
HEAD refs/heads/some-branch'?
Although gitolite disables shell access by design, it provides several
(optionally installed) features to allow specific shell commands to be
executed. One such command is "set-head", which does exactly what you
ask. You run it like 'ssh git@server set-head reponame.git
refs/heads/foo' and it ends up running 'git symbolic-ref HEAD
refs/heads/foo' in the repo.
I realise that does not answer "can it be done via git push" but I
thought it might help...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-25 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-25 13:17 Symbolic refs and the git protocol? Avi Kivity
2011-09-25 13:42 ` Sitaram Chamarty [this message]
2011-09-25 13:48 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-25 14:10 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2011-09-26 14:23 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2011-09-26 14:49 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-25 18:50 ` Ilari Liusvaara
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CAMK1S_joYUKPXDKyomFdbDP4H0UhcwtNQbC89gvNZOTHowYrLw@mail.gmail.com \
--to=sitaramc@gmail.com \
--cc=avi@redhat.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=warthog19@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).