From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Teach receive-pack to run pre-receive/post-receive hooks Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:31:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20070307215205.GE28649@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 08 00:32:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HP5cN-0002Fo-II for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:32:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992741AbXCGXcF (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:32:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992740AbXCGXcE (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:32:04 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:37881 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965740AbXCGXcC (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:32:02 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l27NVvq8005999 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:31:57 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l27NVukV012883; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:31:56 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20070307215205.GE28649@spearce.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.984 required=5 tests=AWL,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.119__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.176 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > To help this situation I am introducing two new hooks to the > receive-pack flow: pre-receive and post-receive. These new hooks > are invoked only once per receive-pack execution and are passed > three arguments per ref (refname, old-sha1, new-sha1). Can you give a concise explanation of how "pre-receive" differ from the old "update", and how does "post-receive" differ from the old "post-update"? Linus