Re: Symbolic refs and the git protocol?

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On 09/25/2011 04:42 PM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx>  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'?

No, I use them for ordinary branches, for example

  git symbolic-ref refs/heads/linux-next refs/heads/kvm-updates/3.2

from this point on, any update to kvm-updates/3.2 will be reflected in the linux-next ref.

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...

Well, if set-head can be extended a bit, it would suit me perfectly.

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