Re: cloning/pulling hooks

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 2007 August 29, Petr Baudis wrote:

> But overally, I'm still not convinced that there is a feasible use-case
> for the cloned hooks at all. Someone has a particular example?

Hits me all the time.

1) Start a new project
2) Install a pre-commit hook that checks that every patch meets some
   arbitrary coding standard
3) Clone to laptop
4) Kick self the first time you make a commit that doesn't adhere to coding
   standards that would have been enforced by the hook script.

The problem is that my brain thinks that cloning gets me the same 
configuration as the source, but obviously it doesn't and I forget that I 
need to clone _then_ scp .git/config and .git/hooks/*.

I understand that these things are a security risk to do automatically, and I 
don't think I'd advocate that.  However, it would be useful to be able to 
grab those files as well.


Andy
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