Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > The simple fix is to call register_tempfile() in open_pack_file(), and > just have index-pack clean up the file on its way out. > > But there are harder cases. For instance, imagine somebody pushes a > 500MB file, and you have a pre-receive hook that says "too big; I won't > accept this". And then they push in a loop, as before. You've accepted > the incoming pack into the repository by the time the pre-receive runs. > You can't just delete it, because you don't know if other simultaneous > processes have started to depend on the objects. > > To solve that, I have patches that put incoming packfiles into a > "quarantine" area, then run the connectivity check and pre-receive hooks > with the quarantine accessible via GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES. And > then we either move the quarantine packs into the real repo, or blow > away the tmpdir, depending on whether the hooks said the objects were > OK. > > Those are patches I plan to share upstream but just haven't gotten > around to yet. I think these other patches can come later, independent from this three-patch series resurrected from the archive, so I can take a reroll of these once the integer-size issues you pointed out are sorted out. -- 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