Re: [PATCH] add post-fetch hook

> If we _were_ to sanction the use of the hook to tweak the result, I do not
> want to see it implemented as an ad-hoc hack that tells the hook writers
> that it is _entirely_ their responsiblity to update the remote tracking
> branches from what it fetched, and also update $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD to
> maintain consistency between these two places.
> 
> A very cursory look at the patch tells me that there are a few problems
> with it.  It does not seem to affect what will go to $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
> at all, and hence it does not have any way to affect the result of the
> fetch that does not store it to any of our remote tracking branches.

> > The #1 point of confusion for git-annex users is the need to run
> > "git annex merge" after fetching. That does a union merge of newly
> > fetched remote git-annex branches into the local git-annex branch.
> 
> That use case sounds like that "git fetch" is called as a first class UI,
> which is covered by "git myfetch" (you can call it "git annex fetch")
> wrapper approach, the canonical example of a hook that we explicitly do
> not want to add. It also does not seem to call for mucking with the result
> of the fetch at all.