From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 06:44:39 GMT
Subject: Re: (Ab)using filter-branch from a post-receive hook
Message-ID: <7va9z15xrc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CEAB8F11-05A4-46B4-A0B5-B51B14EAD536@wincent.com>

Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:

> On Jul 14, 2012, at 10:25 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I did not see anything wrong doing what you described in the
>> post-receive, even though having the hook in the "scratch" felt
>> strange, as the "copying from authoritative" would also want to be
>> automated and the natural triggering mechanism to do so would be a
>> post-receive there.  What issues were you worried about?
>
> The part that I left out, to keep things simple, is that ...

I said "strange", not "wrong".  If it is undesirable to hook the
"authoritative" repository, it is perfectly fine to hook on the
receiving end.

So what issues were you worried about?