From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:15:25 GMT
Subject: Re: git hooks to run something
Message-ID: <20090324111524.GA6291@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <556d90580903240356q3a72fd0bwa5ebe335914bc469@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:56:05AM +0100, Alf Clement wrote:

> when I switch between branches, I would like like to delete some
> object files and prepare some setup files.
> I there a good way to do this automatically when I run "git checkout
> branch", like
> misusing a hook to run a make in a special directory?
> All would happen in my local repository.

There is a post-checkout hook; see "git help hooks" for details.

You could also make an alias; see the documentation for "alias.*" in
"git help config".

-Peff