How to limit interactions in a remote git repo?

Question

I have a git repo and I want kinda 'lock' it for a while so no one can use (clone/pull/push etc.) it. But I don't want to delete it. How do I do it?

Where is your remote repo? Are you using bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab, or something else? — mnestorov, Jan 14 '20 at 07:41

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '20 at 07:53

You could install a pre-receive hook on the remote that will always exit with a non-zero exit value, and ideally print some helpful message.

This wouldn't prevent cloning, but since you certainly can't do anything about existing clones anyway, I don't think there's much value in that.

If you want to prevent everything, you'll have to disable it on the transport layer (be it ssh, http or whatever)

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