From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:49:31 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] Teach receive-pack not to run update hook for corrupt/non existent ref Message-ID: <7voby6zwxg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Sitaram Chamarty writes: >> In that case (if "non-existent-ref" was indeed non-existent, and not just >> pointing at a dangling commit), I would say the post anything hook should >> not be called for that ref. These hooks of course need to run if there >> are _other_ refs that were updated, though, to handle these _other_ refs, >> but I do not think they should be told about the no-op. > > Question is what happens if none of them existed. It's a difference > between not calling the hook at all, versus calling it with no > arguments/empty stdin (as the case may be) -- which would you do? In case it was unclear, I was trying to say the hooks should not run with empty input.