Re: Integrating with hooks

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

[Cc: Todd A. Jacobs <nospam@codegnome.org>, git@vger.kernel.org]

Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

> I've created some bash functions which handle tagging some files with
> revision information, but even after reading the git manual I'm not
> really sure how to integrate them so that they remove revision expansion
> before each check-in (to avoid cluttering the repository with keyword
> substitutions), and add them back (with the current commit info) after
> each commit.
> 
> These are the functions:

[...]

> How do I hook this in the way I want so that it's handled automatically?

Take a look at gitattributes(5), namely 'filter' attribute.

Although instead of implementing it "by hand", perhaps it would be
enough to use 'ident' and/or 'export-subs' attribute.

P.S. Because of the way git updates files, and git thinks about files
it is I think universally regarded to be bad idea to put in a file
any Id that depend on commit data.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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