Reporting on 'git clone'

Question

Is there a way to produce a report on who has done a 'git clone' against a repo?

cofarrell · Answer

Hi again,

Are you asking what GET/POST means? That's part of the HTTP specifaction. GET is an operation that is asking the server for something, usually a file or data. The browser uses GET to fetch the HTML of a page for example. POST is usually an operation to submit data to the server, which you will see for both push and clone. Even though clone is reading data from the server, it has to submit a list of changesets that it is interested in downloading, which is why it's a POST and not a GET.

Does that help?

Charles

cofarrell · Answer

Hi Jennifer,

The first is someone doing a clone of the xyz repository from Stash.The latter is a browser requesting the sourcetree png image which would most likely happen on a repository page where we show the clone button.

Cheers,

Charles

Jennifer Schuch · Answer

Hi Charles,

Reviewing the log files, I'm seeing a large number of ...."POST/scm/mob/xyz.git/git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1" | "" "JGit/2.3.1.201302201838-r" | clone, cache:hit | <or cache:miss> ...

As well, as a few:

"GET /s/en_US-1988229788/0df130c/3/2.0.0/_/download/resources/com.atlassian.stash.stash-sourcetree-plugin:stash-sourcetree-resources/sourcetree-clone-bg.png HTTP/1.1"

What is the difference between these two line entries?

Thanks much,

Jennifer