From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:53:49 GMT
Subject: Re: global hooks - once again
Message-ID: <20100702205348.GA8134@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <7v630x1yl8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Now, as long as the "do once per repository" action that you need to do is
> simple enough, it doesn't necessarily have to be "git config".  Perhaps
> 
>     [alias]
>     set-hooks = !"sh -c 'rm -fr .git/hooks && ln -s $1 .git/hooks' -"

It is not difficult to set up hook scripts when initializing a
repository.  In fact git clone --template= and the “[init]
templatedir” configuration work pretty well.  What is more difficult
is to change the list of hook scripts later.

If I symlink the entire hooks dir like you describe, I cannot override
a couple of hooks per-repository without teaching the hook scripts to
handle that themselves.  (something like:

	hook=$(basename "$0")
	! test -e "$GIT_DIR/local-hooks/$hook.disable" || exit 0
	! test -e "$GIT_DIR/local-hooks/$hook" ||
		exec "$GIT_DIR/local-hooks/$hook"

)  Maybe that is the simplest solution.