From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:00:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow update hooks to update refs on their own
Message-ID: <7vmysy5h5k.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071128161033.GA20308@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> Couldn't you do this with a status message? ("ok <refname> changed by 
>> hook" or something.)
>
> Having just touched this code, I believe the answer is yes. receive-pack
> has always sent just "ok <refname>\n", so we could start interpreting
> anything after the <refname> bit freely...

More importantly, no send-pack choked on "ok <refname>" followed by a SP
(old ones just checked "ok" and nothing else, the current one NULs out
the SP and lets you use the rest as a message), so such a change to
receive-pack does not have to break older send-pack.