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Re: Why isn't hook file cloned to bared repository ?

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BDBryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 4, 2009, 06:13 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Emily Ren <lingyan.ren@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I added file "update" in my git repository my_repo/.git/hooks/,  then
> I run command "git clone --bare my_repo" to generate a bared
> repository my_repo.git. But there's no update in my_repo.git/hooks.
>
> Do you know why ?

Because allowing code from an untrusted third-party repository to be executed automatically without giving a chance to examine it is not a very good idea from a security standpoint. In addition, hooks are often not of interest to the person cloning the repository. Because of these reasons, git clone will not copy hooks from the source repository (for consistency, this is the case even when the source is local).

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