Re: [RFC] Hook management via 'git hooks' command

From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Date: Nov 25, 2019, 22:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20191125224533.GB83137@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191125222113.GA83137@google.com>

> This sounds like we both are pretty close on the same page, so I think I
> will get started in the coming weeks and see if we can get a mockup to
> pick at with the implementation details in front of us.

Hm. To elaborate (and partially as a reminder to myself) I will try to get it done in the following order:

1. Implement 'git hook list <hookname>' which reads all the configs.
(User would need to manually add the configs at this stage)

2. (maybe) Implement 'git hook execute <hookname> <arg...>'. This may or
may not be useful; I suppose it would be pretty equivalent to:

 $ git hook list <hookname> | xargs -I% sh % <arg...>

3. Implement config modifiers like 'git hook add', 'git hook edit' etc.

My thinking is that we will have a lot of time with 1. in front of us to nitpick how we want the config format to look, how the ordering should go, etc. and it will be a fairly simple implementation. It'll also be "usable" although not in a particularly friendly way in case someone wants to try it and see, in a way that the config modifiers by themselves wouldn't be.

 - Emily