On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 at 06:59:11, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> [...]
> On second thought, it might be possible to overwrite the value of
> transfer.hiderefs using the -c command line option. If we combine that
> with the negative patterns supported by hiderefs, we might get a
> solution that is clean and that avoids race conditions. I will check
> whether that works with git-http-backend as well and will report back.
>
> Thanks for the pointer!
Using receive.hideRefs seems to work but there are two minor issues:
1. There does not seem to be a way to pass configuration parameters to
git-shell commands. Right now, the only way to work around this seems
to write a wrapper script around git-shell that catches
git-receive-pack commands and executes something like
git -c receive.hideRefs=[...] receive-pack [...]
instead of forwarding those commands to git-shell. How about allowing
to overwrite configuration parameters via an environment variable?
Has that been discussed before?
2. transfer.hideRefs and receive.hideRefs do not seem to work with Git
namespaces in general. show_ref_cb() replaces each ref outside the
current namespace with ".have" before passing it to show_ref() which
in turn performs the ref_is_hidden() check. This has the nice side
effect that receive.hideRefs=.have does exactly what I want, however
it also means that hideRefs feature does not allow for excluding only
specific tags outside the current namespace. Is that intended? Can we
rely on Git always looking for ".have" in the hideRefs list in this
case? Should the documentation be updated?
Regards,
Lukas
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