Any ACL you implement via an 'update' hook isn't actual access control if the user has login access to the machine running git, because they can trivially just build their own git version which doesn't run the hook.
Change the documentation to take this dangerous edge case into account, and remove the mention of the advice originating on the mailing list, the users reading this don't care where the idea came up. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> --- Documentation/githooks.txt | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt index 0d94337..0dd618a 100644 --- a/Documentation/githooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt @@ -274,9 +274,11 @@ does not know the entire set of branches, so it would end up firing one e-mail per ref when used naively, though. The <<post-receive,'post-receive'>> hook is more suited to that. -Another use suggested on the mailing list is to use this hook to -implement access control which is finer grained than the one -based on filesystem group. +In an environment that restricts the users' access only to git +commands over the wire, this hook can be used to implement access +control without relying on filesystem ownership and group +membership. See linkgit:git-shell[1] for how you might use the login +shell to restrict the user's access to only git commands. Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to 'git send-pack' on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
