Re: cloning/pulling hooks

> On Wednesday 2007 August 29, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > But overally, I'm still not convinced that there is a feasible use-case
> > for the cloned hooks at all. Someone has a particular example?
> 
> Hits me all the time.
> 
> 1) Start a new project
> 2) Install a pre-commit hook that checks that every patch meets some
>    arbitrary coding standard
> 3) Clone to laptop
> 4) Kick self the first time you make a commit that doesn't adhere to coding
>    standards that would have been enforced by the hook script.
> 
> The problem is that my brain thinks that cloning gets me the same 
> configuration as the source, but obviously it doesn't and I forget that I 
> need to clone _then_ scp .git/config and .git/hooks/*.
> 
> I understand that these things are a security risk to do automatically, and I 
> don't think I'd advocate that.  However, it would be useful to be able to 
> grab those files as well.