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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] update-hook: parse the tag header in preparation to use the tag type
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:38:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070320143844.GA1750@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703201058.42753.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> The tag header is parsed with a while loop and read command.  I'm not
> entirely sure how portable it is, as it had to use the following unusual
> heredoc format:
> 
>   while read field value
>   do
>     # ..
>   done <<< "$(some command)"

To bad you can't use for-each-ref.  ;-)

The problem of course is the update hook is running before a ref
is created to point at the tag.  If you used post-receive hook
on the other hand...  Oh, right, that has its own problems too!

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-20 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-20 10:58 [PATCH 3/4] update-hook: parse the tag header in preparation to use the tag type Andy Parkins
2007-03-20 14:38 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-03-20 15:24   ` Andy Parkins
2007-03-20 15:38     ` Shawn O. Pearce

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