Re: cloning/pulling hooks

> 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.