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[PATCH] Documentation: fix description for enabling hooks

From
Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date
Dec 17, 2008, 02:59 UTC
Message-ID
<200812170359.24109.markus.heidelberg@web.de>

Since f98f8cb (Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix, 2008-06-24) hooks are not enabled by making them executable anymore, but by removing the '.sample' suffix from the filename.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
---
 Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt |    3 ++-
 Documentation/glossary-content.txt     |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index a969b3f..1befca9 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ hooks::
 	Hooks are customization scripts used by various git
 	commands.  A handful of sample hooks are installed when
 	'git-init' is run, but all of them are disabled by
-	default.  To enable, they need to be made executable.
+	default.  To enable, the `.sample` suffix has to be
+	removed from the filename by renaming.
 	Read linkgit:githooks[5] for more details about
 	each hook.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 9b4a4f4..9afca75 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ to point at the new commit.
 	and potentially aborted, and allow for a post-notification after the
 	operation is done. The hook scripts are found in the
 	`$GIT_DIR/hooks/` directory, and are enabled by simply
-	making them executable.
+	removing the `.sample` suffix from the filename. In earlier versions
+	of git you had to make them executable.
 
 [[def_index]]index::
 	A collection of files with stat information, whose contents are stored
-- 
1.6.1.rc3.23.gaf48b
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  1. Documentation: fix description for enabling hooksMarkus Heidelberg, Dec 17, 2008
  2. Miklos VajnaDec 17, 2008
  3. Johannes SixtDec 17, 2008
  4. Miklos VajnaDec 17, 2008
  5. Markus HeidelbergDec 17, 2008
  6. githooks documentation: add a note about the +x modeMiklos Vajna, Dec 17, 2008

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