Re: [PATCH] Add a post-tag hook

[Ammon Riley <ammon.riley@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> 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.

On the particular project I'm working on, we're not really using git
in the most distributed fashion -- it's completely internal to the
company. In our case, the tags are being created directly on
the shared repository, rather than on a local repository and being
pushed.

Cheers,
Ammon