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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2017-04-10 18:13:39 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-04-16 18:15:17 -0700 |
| commit | eaeed077a69ad1e26b0c329ac0f6cbd397f5be9e (patch) | |
| tree | 92af17e83635d0f9d1720ac719f8aac6eb6dcb84 /Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt | |
| parent | 360244a51acbc0e734d13353785fff989015f0da (diff) | |
| download | git-eaeed077a69ad1e26b0c329ac0f6cbd397f5be9e.tar.gz | |
receive-pack: document user-visible quarantine effects
Commit 722ff7f87 (receive-pack: quarantine objects until
pre-receive accepts, 2016-10-03) changed the underlying
details of how we take in objects. This is mostly
transparent to the user, but there are a few things they
might notice. Let's document them.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt')
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1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt index 0ccd5fbc78..7267ecfbe8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt @@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ will be performed, and the update, post-receive and post-update hooks will not be invoked either. This can be useful to quickly bail out if the update is not to be supported. +See the notes on the quarantine environment below. + update Hook ----------- Before each ref is updated, if $GIT_DIR/hooks/update file exists @@ -214,6 +216,32 @@ if the repository is packed and is served via a dumb transport. exec git update-server-info +Quarantine Environment +---------------------- + +When `receive-pack` takes in objects, they are placed into a temporary +"quarantine" directory within the `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory and +migrated into the main object store only after the `pre-receive` hook +has completed. If the push fails before then, the temporary directory is +removed entirely. + +This has a few user-visible effects and caveats: + + 1. Pushes which fail due to problems with the incoming pack, missing + objects, or due to the `pre-receive` hook will not leave any + on-disk data. This is usually helpful to prevent repeated failed + pushes from filling up your disk, but can make debugging more + challenging. + + 2. Any objects created by the `pre-receive` hook will be created in + the quarantine directory (and migrated only if it succeeds). + + 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). + + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-send-pack[1], linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] |