advocate git config receive.updateServerInfo instead of enabling a post-update hook

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#1,829 opened on Feb 11, 2023 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 1/5
Estimated time: Under an hour
Newbie friendliness: 72/100

Issue type: Documentation
Clarity: Clearly specified
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: git
Domain: documentation

Research direction

Open book/04-git-server/sections/protocols.asc at the linked lines and review the instructions for serving a bare repository over the dumb HTTP protocol. Update the example to use receive.updateServerInfo as described in the issue, preserving the surrounding explanation. Done means the section no longer instructs readers to install the post-update hook and the documentation explains the configuration approach.

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Description

https://github.com/progit/progit2/blob/d9acee50e367e82a1dfddd88ca0e5e00c2cc95d5/book/04-git-server/sections/protocols.asc?plain=1#L87-L109

I think instead of installing that hook the code block should look like this:

$ cd /var/www/htdocs/
$ git clone --bare /path/to/git_project gitproject.git
$ cd gitproject.git
$ git config receive.updateServerInfo true

The advantage is, that one can also set this option globally with git config --global or even --system, which is nice because it not necessary anymore to handle that hook for each repo individually.

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