From: Pat Notz Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:41:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a post-tag hook Message-ID: <1cd1989b0904240941o3d80bdbby19fb02093c887af@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Ammon Riley wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > Ammon Riley 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. Today, this same situation came up in my organization. It seem like a natural partner of the post-commit hook. > > Cheers, > Ammon > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html