From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:19:05 GMT
Subject: Re: StGit hooks
Message-ID: <20071128121905.GA15953@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <474D5482.5020609@op5.se>

On 2007-11-28 12:44:02 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Karl Hasselström wrote:
>
> > Also, if StGit is to set up hooks automatically (commit hooks,
> > pre-rebase hooks, whatever), it'd be nice to not have to worry
> > about overwriting any existing hooks the user might have. But git
> > currently allows only one hook script per hook, right?
>
> Yes, but you can obviously call any number of scripts and programs
> from within the hook that git executes.

That doesn't help here, however, since the user and not StGit "owns"
the "top-level" hook. StGit would have to rely on the user having
installed a specific kind of multiplexer as a hook script (e.g. one
that executes everything under .git/hooks/$hook.d/). Or it would have
to install it itself, and hope that moving any existing hook to the
subdirectory where the multiplexer looks for hooks doesn't break
anything. Both solutions are problematic.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle