Re: Git version of some common SVN hooks?

> Hi,
> 
> I'm porting a large and active repository from SVN to Git.
> 
> To provide the developers with the same features, I need the Git
> version of the following common hooks:
> 
> 1. svn2cl: the Subversion ChangeLog Generator. Basically a script that
> sends a readable email listing a range of commits, showing just a
> short summary for each commit: author name, timestamp, hash, paths
> modified, commit message.
> 2. Hook to reject any commit containing a path with non-ASCII characters.
> 3. Hook to reject any commit causing the repository to contain two or
> more paths that differ from each other only in letter case. For
> instance, a commit adding foo/bar.py would be rejected if foo/Bar.py
> was added as part of that same commit, or already existed in the repo.
> 4. Hook to trigger an action based on which path was committed to. For
> example, if a developer commits into REPO_ROOT/foo, send an email to
> address foo@somedomain, whereas a commit to REPO_ROOT/bar will send an
> email to bar@somedomain.
> 
> I'm hoping there are Git versions of these hooks already written, but
> if now any leads about implementing them would be appreciated.
> 
> Our full setup btw is a large repository hosted on a local instance of
> Gitorious. All our users use Git >= 1.7, although they work on all 3
> operating systems: Linux, OS X, Windows.
> 
> Thanks, D