Re: cloning/pulling hooks

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 2007 August 28, Petr Baudis wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 06:46:48PM CEST, Josh England wrote:
> > When cloning an existing repository, is there any way to grab
> > the .git/hooks files as part of the clone (or pull)?
>
>   No. You can add the appropriate instructions to instructions how to
> clone the repository, users have to install the hooks manually.
>
>   Now I went on with a large writeup on considerations for implementing
> such a feature (including security), but then I scrapped it. What would
> you like to use these hooks for? Really, perhaps it's best to instead do
> any "post-commit" etc. checks at the push time instead of the commit
> time, so that developers can still freely commit locally, e.g. I
> sometimes do temporary commits on side branches of various work in
> progress changes, then randomly merge them together etc. before I come
> up with the final sequence of commits that I push out.

I've not done it for myself yet, but I had an idea about making an independent 
branch in the repository itself containing the hook scripts for that project.  
That way, the cloners get the scripts but still have to knowingly install 
them themselves.

If you were feeling particularly brave, you could check that branch out 
in .git/hooks.


Andy


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