On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:40:37 +0530 Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:48 PM, J. Bakshi > <joydeep.bakshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I have a central server where git repos are located and based on http base push/pull. > > authentication is done by a text based password file, generated by htpasswd. > > > > I am searching for a server side hook (pre-push) which can prevent all push to master, > > except few users found at that password file generated by htpasswd. Is there any such hook > > available ? Some suggest to use gitolite, but it also based on the hooks to do the same. > > If you don't want to use gitolite, you can roll your own update hook. > It can be as simple as > > - check $REMOTE_USER to see if the name is in the "allowed" list > (your choice how you want to maintain that list). If allowed, 'exit > 0". > - otherwise check $1 (argument 1) to see if it is > "refs/heads/master". If it is, "exit 1". > > How difficult is that? Thanks for the clue. I'm not familiar with the hook programming. I'll check further with the clues you have given. -- with regards. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html