git-commit-vandalism/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt
Junio C Hamano 13cfdfd5fa Documentation: add hooks/update example.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-19 23:50:48 -08:00

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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: control access to branches.
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:55:32 -0800
Message-ID: <7vfypumlu3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Abstract: An example hooks/update script is presented to
implement repository maintenance policies, such as who can push
into which branch and who can make a tag.
When your developer runs git-push into the repository,
git-receive-pack is run (either locally or over ssh) as that
developer, so is hooks/update script. Quoting from the relevant
section of the documentation:
Before each ref is updated, if $GIT_DIR/hooks/update file exists
and executable, it is called with three parameters:
$GIT_DIR/hooks/update refname sha1-old sha1-new
The refname parameter is relative to $GIT_DIR; e.g. for the
master head this is "refs/heads/master". Two sha1 are the
object names for the refname before and after the update. Note
that the hook is called before the refname is updated, so either
sha1-old is 0{40} (meaning there is no such ref yet), or it
should match what is recorded in refname.
So if your policy is (1) always require fast-forward push
(i.e. never allow "git-push repo +branch:branch"), (2) you
have a list of users allowed to update each branch, and (3) you
do not let tags to be overwritten, then:
#!/bin/sh
# This is a sample hooks/update script, written by JC
# in his e-mail buffer, so naturally it is not tested
# but hopefully would convey the idea.
umask 002
case "$1" in
refs/tags/*)
# No overwriting an existing tag
if test -f "$GIT_DIR/$1"
then
exit 1
fi
;;
refs/heads/*)
# No rebasing or rewinding
if expr "$2" : '0*$' >/dev/null
then
# creating a new branch
;
else
# updating -- make sure it is a fast forward
mb=`git-merge-base "$2" "$3"`
case "$mb,$2" in
"$2,$mb")
;; # fast forward -- happy
*)
exit 1 ;; # unhappy
esac
fi
;;
*)
# No funny refs allowed
exit 1
;;
esac
# Is the user allowed to update it?
me=`id -u -n` ;# e.g. "junio"
while read head_pattern users
do
if expr "$1" : "$head_pattern" >/dev/null
then
case " $users " in
*" $me "*)
exit 0 ;; # happy
' * ')
exit 0 ;; # anybody
esac
fi
done
exit 1
For the sake of simplicity, I assumed that you keep something
like this in $GIT_DIR/info/allowed-pushers file:
refs/heads/master junio
refs/heads/cogito$ pasky
refs/heads/bw/ linus
refs/heads/tmp/ *
refs/tags/v[0-9]* junio
With this, Linus can push or create "bw/penguin" or "bw/zebra"
or "bw/panda" branches, Pasky can do only "cogito", and I can do
master branch and make versioned tags. And anybody can do
tmp/blah branches. This assumes all the users are in a single
group that can write into $GIT_DIR/ and underneath.