Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> How would I do that? The update to the remote namespace is done by Git,
>>> not by the remote-helper.
>>>
>>> OK, I'm now convinced that my solution is the right one. The
>>> alternatives are far more complex and I still fail to see the benefits.
>>
>> Sounds like a plan, even though it smells like the "update is done
>> by Git" that does not have any way to opt-out may be the real design
>> mistake and your "solution" is a work-around to that.
>>
>> Would it be a possibility to make it tunable, perhaps by introducing
>> a capability on the remote-interface side that allows you to tell it
>> not to mess with the remote namespace?
>
> Ideally, it would be possible to ask for a non-update without a fatal
> error on old Git versions, but this is not possible (hence, my fix is
> the "portable" one, that works on Git 1.8.4).
>
> But that's probably the best we can do now.
... and a patch implementing that would look like:
commit e438ddc58a3cedcf66332bddda792954c5905cea
Author: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Aug 26 11:10:30 2013 +0200
transport-helper: add dont-update-private capability
diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c
index 63cabc3..639b0e3 100644
--- a/transport-helper.c
+++ b/transport-helper.c
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ struct helper_data {
push : 1,
connect : 1,
signed_tags : 1,
- no_disconnect_req : 1;
+ no_disconnect_req : 1,
+ dont_update_private : 1;
char *export_marks;
char *import_marks;
/* These go from remote name (as in "list") to private name */
@@ -205,6 +206,8 @@ static struct child_process *get_helper(struct transport *transport)
strbuf_addstr(&arg, "--import-marks=");
strbuf_addstr(&arg, capname + strlen("import-marks "));
data->import_marks = strbuf_detach(&arg, NULL);
+ } else if (!prefixcmp(capname, "dont-update-private")) {
+ data->dont_update_private = 1;
} else if (mandatory) {
die("Unknown mandatory capability %s. This remote "
"helper probably needs newer version of Git.",
@@ -723,7 +726,7 @@ static void push_update_refs_status(struct helper_data *data,
if (push_update_ref_status(&buf, &ref, remote_refs))
continue;
- if (!data->refspecs)
+ if (!data->refspecs || data->dont_update_private)
continue;
/* propagate back the update to the remote namespace */
(Plus tests and docs)
Based on this, git-remote-mediawiki could simply use:
commit aa745c3ccb6681df8dc6406b00e0d31b26e72d50
Author: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Aug 26 11:09:55 2013 +0200
git-remote-mediawiki: use dont-update-private capability on dumb push
diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
index a2e71d6..b29682e 100755
--- a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
+++ b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
@@ -601,6 +601,9 @@ sub mw_capabilities {
print {*STDOUT} "import\n";
print {*STDOUT} "list\n";
print {*STDOUT} "push\n";
+ if ($dumb_push) {
+ print {*STDOUT} "dont-update-private\n";
+ }
print {*STDOUT} "\n";
return;
}
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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