Re: cloning/pulling hooks

> On Tuesday 2007 August 28, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 06:46:48PM CEST, Josh England wrote:
> > > When cloning an existing repository, is there any way to grab
> > > the .git/hooks files as part of the clone (or pull)?
> >
> >   No. You can add the appropriate instructions to instructions how to
> > clone the repository, users have to install the hooks manually.
> >
> >   Now I went on with a large writeup on considerations for implementing
> > such a feature (including security), but then I scrapped it. What would
> > you like to use these hooks for? Really, perhaps it's best to instead do
> > any "post-commit" etc. checks at the push time instead of the commit
> > time, so that developers can still freely commit locally, e.g. I
> > sometimes do temporary commits on side branches of various work in
> > progress changes, then randomly merge them together etc. before I come
> > up with the final sequence of commits that I push out.
> 
> I've not done it for myself yet, but I had an idea about making an independent 
> branch in the repository itself containing the hook scripts for that project.  
> That way, the cloners get the scripts but still have to knowingly install 
> them themselves.
> 
> If you were feeling particularly brave, you could check that branch out 
> in .git/hooks.