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