From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:38:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] update-hook: parse the tag header in preparation to use the tag type
Message-ID: <20070320143844.GA1750@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200703201058.42753.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> The tag header is parsed with a while loop and read command.  I'm not
> entirely sure how portable it is, as it had to use the following unusual
> heredoc format:
> 
>   while read field value
>   do
>     # ..
>   done <<< "$(some command)"

To bad you can't use for-each-ref.  ;-)

The problem of course is the update hook is running before a ref
is created to point at the tag.  If you used post-receive hook
on the other hand...  Oh, right, that has its own problems too!

-- 
Shawn.