On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > sometimes git communicates with something that's not git on the other > side (gitolite and github for example). > > Sometimes the server wants to communicate directly to the git user. > > git isn't really designed for this. gitolite solves this by do user > interaction on STDERR instead. The bad thing about this is that it can > only be one-direction communication, for example error messages. > > If git would allow for the user to interact direct with the server, a > lot of cool and and userfriendly features could be developed. > > For example: > gitolite has something called wild repos[1]. The management is > cumbersome and if you misspell when you clone a repo you might instead > create a new repo. For the record, although it cannot do the yes/no part, if you want to disable auto-creation on a fetch/clone (read operation) it's trivial to add a "PRE_CREATE" trigger to do that. -- 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