Re: [PATCH] post-checkout hook, and related docs and tests

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2007, 18:34 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsl53ap5x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1190654052.6078.14.camel@beauty>

"Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov> writes:

Show 5 quoted lines

>> What's the _semantics_ you are trying to achieve?
>
> I'd like to get a hook that runs whenever the working dir gets
> updated.  The 'git-checkout otherbranch path.c' case should
> run it also, so I view that as a bug.

I think that _is_ INSANE.  Do you run the hook for these then?

	$ edit path.c
        $ git-cat-file otherbranch:path.c >path.c

Why "git checkout otherbranch path.c" should be any different?