Re: global hooks

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Mar 20, 2008, 11:20 UTC
Message-ID: <200803201220.47503.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5jyyvw1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thursday 20 March 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Victor Bogado da Silva Lins <victor@bogado.net> writes:
> 
> > SO my question is, is there a way to make that hook global to all
> > projects? If not, would it be a good idea to allow this?
> 
> Probably a post- git-init hook that lets you do anything to your newly
> created repository would be the only thing that you need.  Then you can
> copy, untar or even use symlink to muck with .git/hooks/ in whatever way
> you please.
> 
> There needs a mechanism for you to specify what that hook is, and it
> cannot be in individual repositories, so it has to live in ~/.gitconfig
> somewhere.

Or you could add the hook (either the post-init hook, or for that matter the hook you want to make global) to the Git template directory on your system (/usr/share/git-core/templates by default). If you don't want to make it system-global (only user-global), I guess you could make your own Git template directory somewhere (copy the system's template dir, and add/enable whatever hooks you like), and set up an alias to "git init --template=<your_template_dir>". Then use this alias instead of "git init".

...Johan

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