Force git version on push to remote repo
I'm not sure if this is something like bonkers, but I know that a certain repo (like Atlassian Stash) allows you to set up remote git hooks. We have different devs using a very old version of git and I was wondering if there is some way to push to return the repo report to them. "You should be migrating from git 1.7 to something more modern."
I know you can set up githooks locally, but my impression is that there is no way to automatically "seed" the repo using hooks - up to the user to install them.
I'm looking for a methodology to inform the user about a push or clone so that they update the git version.
We are currently using Atlassian Stash as our repo, but I also have access to GitLab.
- Additional Notes:
The default git version is something like 1.7. I don't remember the exact situation, but there is a bug that we had 3 people with that fixed using a newer version of git. IT pros won't update the default version, so I was looking for work around
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Unfortunately, this is currently not possible.
Git v1.7.12.1 and newer can commit their version to the other side ( commit ), but this version information is not available for any hooks. The only way to get this information is to modify the executable git-receive-pack
running on the server, or write a wrapper around git-receive-pack
that does some parsing of the protocol to extract the version information and do something with it.
I recommend that you send an email to the Git mailing list and ask the developers to make available a version of the client in a variable hooked environment (if provided by the client).
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