Re: [PATCH] Add a post-tag hook

[Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Ammon Riley <ammon.riley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > Ammon Riley <ammon.riley@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Add a post-tag hook, to allow notifications when a tag is created.
> >> The hook is given the name of the newly created tag.
> >
> > Why would you want to send notifications upon creating a tag in
> > your local repository?
> >
> > Usually a tag is only interesting when it has been sent to a shared
> > public repository, which is by git push, and thus is caught by a
> > git receive-pack hook like post-update or post-receive.
>
> On the particular project I'm working on, we're not really using git
> in the most distributed fashion -- it's completely internal to the
> company. In our case, the tags are being created directly on
> the shared repository, rather than on a local repository and being
> pushed.

Today, this same situation came up in my organization.  It seem like a
natural partner of the post-commit hook.

>
> Cheers,
> Ammon
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