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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaram@atc.tcs.com>
To: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Cc: git discussion list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>,
	Teemu Matilainen <teemu.matilainen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [gitolite] symlink hooks instead of copying them
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:58:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100204012840.GC497@atcmail.atc.tcs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100203204723.GA30157@lapse.rw.madduck.net>

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:47:23AM +1300, martin f krafft wrote:
> Dear Sitaram, dear Teemo, dear gitolite-fans,
> 
> Gitolite currently copies hooks to repositories. For upgrades, it
> must thus ensure that all hooks are also upgraded.
> 
> It occurs to me that this might be easier done using symlinks, or
> with a file that includes the master hook(s) in
> ~/.gitolite/src/hooks. Then, the hooks just have to be upgraded in
> one place.
> 
> Do you see a reason not to do this via symlinks?

If you mean just the gitolite-specific hooks (the update
hook for all repos, and the post-update hook for the admin
repo) then no problem.

The other hooks I'd rather not assume anything about.  The
current scheme forces an overwrite of the gitolite-specific
hooks, as well as any hooks given in src/hooks, each time an
"install" is done.  It does not touch any *other* hooks,
which allows the admin to (via command line) place specific
hooks in specific repos manually if he wishes to.

I'm ok with symlinking stuff; a couple of "cp" commands
would change to "ln" :)  Let me try it out (and make sure it
works for upgrades also...)

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-04  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-03 20:47 [gitolite] symlink hooks instead of copying them martin f krafft
2010-02-04  1:28 ` Sitaram Chamarty [this message]
2010-02-04  1:46   ` martin f krafft
2010-02-04  3:22     ` Sitaram Chamarty
2010-02-04  4:13       ` martin f krafft
2010-02-04  6:17     ` Bill Lear
2010-02-04  6:34       ` martin f krafft
2010-02-04  1:35 ` Sitaram Chamarty

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