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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2017-04-11 00:14:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-04-17 03:19:18 +0200 |
| commit | d8f4481c4f03132174b514f428cd67d2cc0dc997 (patch) | |
| tree | 70b6f8f9291109936af14988d23ebed5ced643bd /Documentation | |
| parent | receive-pack: document user-visible quarantine effects (diff) | |
| download | git-d8f4481c4f03132174b514f428cd67d2cc0dc997.tar.xz git-d8f4481c4f03132174b514f428cd67d2cc0dc997.zip | |
refs: reject ref updates while GIT_QUARANTINE_PATH is set
As documented in git-receive-pack(1), updating a ref from
within the pre-receive hook is dangerous and can corrupt
your repo. This patch forbids ref updates entirely during
the hook to make it harder for adventurous hook writers to
shoot themselves in the foot.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt index 7267ecfbe8..86a4b32f0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt @@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ This has a few user-visible effects and caveats: 3. The `pre-receive` hook MUST NOT update any refs to point to quarantined objects. Other programs accessing the repository will not be able to see the objects (and if the pre-receive hook fails, - those refs would become corrupted). + those refs would become corrupted). For safety, any ref updates + from within `pre-receive` are automatically rejected. SEE ALSO |