Re: [PATCH] contrib/hooks: adapt default Debian install location for contrib hooks

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Sep 20, 2011, 19:38 UTC
Message-ID: <1316547492.14618.10.camel@ddn-tmpdesk.its.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20110920111914.17913.qmail@d29ca435be5a3d.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 11:19 +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:

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> Placing the contrib hooks into /usr/share/doc/ wasn't a good idea in the
> first place.  According to the Debian policy they should be located in
> /usr/share/git-core/, so let's put them there.
> 
> Thanks to Bill Allombert for reporting this through
>  http://bugs.debian.org/640949
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
> ---
>  contrib/hooks/post-receive-email     |    4 ++--
>  templates/hooks--post-receive.sample |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

What is the rationale for applying this outside of the land of Debian? I understand the EPEL/Fedora crew are putting those example hooks into /usr/share/git-gore, but I want to know why that should become the standard in git.git.

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-Drew Northup
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