From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Dan Wang <dwwang@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 11:03:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPc5daWjSW5KM4uUyEBbb+765t50+dUsewF52uPrCiT1HW=NAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160701175950.GB16235@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> If you give up on having multiple incarnations of each variable, then I
> think:
>
> GIT_PUSH_VAR_foo=value_for_foo
> GIT_PUSH_VAR_bar=value_for_bar
>
> is quite elegant, and easy to use from hooks. It just cannot represent
> multiple such "foo" variables.
>
>> If we did not have a GIT_PUSH_OPTIONS_COUNT and GIT_PUSH_OPTION_<N>
>> but rather GIT_PUSH_OPTIONS_VARIABLES that contains the other variables,
>> it may be easier to handle, but whether you read from a file or evaluate the
>> environment variable is only a minor step, the indirection is there anyway
>> and this would be very close to what we have above.
>
> It makes the server implementation a bit uglier. You have to create the
> temporary file, and you have to clean it up. What process is responsible
> for cleaning up stale files? Obviously receive-pack would try to clean
> up after itself, but what happens when it is "kill -9"'d, or the system
> goes down, etc? We clean up stale tmp files like tmp_obj_* in git-gc; I
> think we'd want something like that here.
It still is not clear to me why the option to pass _COUNT and _VAR_<N> is
rejected.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-01 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-30 0:59 [RFC PATCHv1 0/4] Push options in C Git Stefan Beller
2016-06-30 0:59 ` [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 7:14 ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 17:20 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 17:59 ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 18:03 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-07-01 18:11 ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 19:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-01 19:31 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 19:39 ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 19:50 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 18:40 ` Stefan Beller
2016-06-30 0:59 ` [PATCH 2/4] receive-pack: implement advertising and receiving " Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-01 17:24 ` Stefan Beller
2016-06-30 0:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] push: accept " Stefan Beller
2016-06-30 0:59 ` [PATCH 4/4] add a test for " Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 7:09 ` [RFC PATCHv1 0/4] Push options in C Git Jeff King
2016-07-01 17:07 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 17:55 ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 18:25 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-01 20:01 ` Jeff King
2016-07-07 1:12 [PATCHv3 " Stefan Beller
2016-07-07 1:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-07 20:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-07 21:50 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-07 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-09 0:31 [PATCHv4 0/4] Push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-09 0:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 17:39 [PATCHv5 0/4] Push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 17:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 21:49 [PATCHv7 0/4] Push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 21:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options Stefan Beller
2016-07-14 22:46 ` Jeff King
2016-07-14 22:51 ` Stefan Beller
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