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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 14:47:53 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt b/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c8d2ec --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +gitnamespaces(7) +================ + +NAME +---- +gitnamespaces - Git namespaces + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +GIT_NAMESPACE=<namespace> 'git upload-pack' +GIT_NAMESPACE=<namespace> 'git receive-pack' + + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +Git supports dividing the refs of a single repository into multiple +namespaces, each of which has its own branches, tags, and HEAD. Git can +expose each namespace as an independent repository to pull from and push +to, while sharing the object store, and exposing all the refs to +operations such as linkgit:git-gc[1]. + +Storing multiple repositories as namespaces of a single repository +avoids storing duplicate copies of the same objects, such as when +storing multiple branches of the same source. The alternates mechanism +provides similar support for avoiding duplicates, but alternates do not +prevent duplication between new objects added to the repositories +without ongoing maintenance, while namespaces do. + +To specify a namespace, set the `GIT_NAMESPACE` environment variable to +the namespace. For each ref namespace, Git stores the corresponding +refs in a directory under `refs/namespaces/`. For example, +`GIT_NAMESPACE=foo` will store refs under `refs/namespaces/foo/`. You +can also specify namespaces via the `--namespace` option to +linkgit:git[1]. + +Note that namespaces which include a `/` will expand to a hierarchy of +namespaces; for example, `GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar` will store refs under +`refs/namespaces/foo/refs/namespaces/bar/`. This makes paths in +`GIT_NAMESPACE` behave hierarchically, so that cloning with +`GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar` produces the same result as cloning with +`GIT_NAMESPACE=foo` and cloning from that repo with `GIT_NAMESPACE=bar`. It +also avoids ambiguity with strange namespace paths such as `foo/refs/heads/`, +which could otherwise generate directory/file conflicts within the `refs` +directory. + +linkgit:git-upload-pack[1] and linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] rewrite the +names of refs as specified by `GIT_NAMESPACE`. git-upload-pack and +git-receive-pack will ignore all references outside the specified +namespace. + +The smart HTTP server, linkgit:git-http-backend[1], will pass +GIT_NAMESPACE through to the backend programs; see +linkgit:git-http-backend[1] for sample configuration to expose +repository namespaces as repositories. + +For a simple local test, you can use linkgit:git-remote-ext[1]: + +---------- +git clone ext::'git --namespace=foo %s /tmp/prefixed.git' +---------- + +include::transfer-data-leaks.txt[] + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |