Subject: Re: git push to a non-bare repository

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:01:28 +0100

Sam Vilain wrote:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:

>>> I don't understand the design choice here: git had two options to
>>> avoid this scenario:
>>
>> Actually, there are no such "design choices".  That's entirely
>> up to the repository owners to arrange post-update hook, to
>> allow you to do anything you want.  
>>
>> The default is not to encourage people (who do not know what
>> they are doing anyway) to push into non-bare repository.
>>   
> 
> Maybe it's worth making it an error (that can be forced) if you're
> pushing to the head that's checked out in a non-bare repository ?
> 
> It's pretty nasty behaviour for people used to darcs / bzr et al.

Perhaps it would be for the best.

BUT unless you arrange some fancy post-update hook you have two
sane choices:
 * push to bare repository, with 1:1 refs mapping
 * push to non-bare repository, but with mapping pushed refs on
   pushee to remotes refs (remote / tracking branches) on remote
   side.

In all other choices there madness lies... ;-)

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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