[Kde-scm-interest] Gitolite server-side clones and personal branches

[Jeff Mitchell]

On 06/17/2010 06:46 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 08:42 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> Em Quarta-feira 16 Junho 2010, às 14:17:58, Johannes Sixt escreveu:
>>> But you can place such branches in a new ref namespace on the server:
>>> refs/personal/myname/mybranch (as opposed to refs/heads/personal/....).
>>> Such refs are hidden from regular clone/fetch/pull, but you can still
>>> access them using
>>>
>>>   git pull origin personal/myname/mybranch
>>>
>>> Users who regularly exchange topics in this way can write them down in the
>>> config file:
>>>
>>>    fetch = +refs/personal/hausmann/*:refs/remotes/origin/hausmann/*
>>>
>>> To push such a branch for the first time is not straight-forward, though:
>>>
>>>    git push origin my-topic:refs/personal/hausmann/my-topic
>>>
>>> and I don't know whether cgit and redmine can show or work with such refs,
>>> and any cleanup is still not automatic ;)
>>
>> That's no different than a separate repo.
>>
>> The advantage is automatic sharing of objects in gc.
> 
> Not quite true -- the other advantage is that, if we have the clone on
> the cgit/redmine server pulling all personal branches, it can show those
> personal branches in the code browsers.

Clarification: I *think* we could get it set up to do this. It might
require some scripting though.

--Jeff

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