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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: shared hooks (Re: help for a git newbie please)
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Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Now, if you either use some kind of networked filesystem, or you can
> configure it so each developers machine has the same install, you can
> make use of git templates mechanism.

To expand on this: if you are in the "controlled environment"
situation, you may find the discussion pointed to by [1] interesting.

If you do not control developer machines, life is even simpler.
One approach[2] is to track a git-templates/ directory in the working
tree and add a setup-hooks.sh script that installs those hooks in
.git/hooks.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/776932
Summary: it is easier to change hooks later if you keep hooks in some
directory outside the template dir (e.g., in /etc/hooks) and put a
symlink to that directory in the template.
[2] e.g., used by the libreoffice repository iirc