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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a post-tag hook
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:19:44 -0700
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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.

> +HOOKS
> +-----
> +This command can run the `post-tag` hook. See linkgit:githooks[5]
> +for more information.
...
> +post-tag
> +--------
> +
> +This hook is invoked by 'git-tag'.  It takes one parameter, the name
> +of the tag, and is invoked after a tag is made.
> +
> +This hook is meant primarily for notification, and cannot affect
> +the outcome of 'git-tag'.

-- 
Shawn.