From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:23:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow update hooks to update refs on their own
Message-ID: <C1C5EF48-689A-4C6D-9EBB-01AFD252C0DF@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <fii1od$d38$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> +The hook may optionally choose to update the ref on its own, e.g.,
>> +if it needs to modify incoming revisions in some way. If it updates
>> +the ref, it should exit with a status of 100.
>
> Why 100, and not for example 127, 128 or -1?

Because those seemed much more likely to be used by existing hook  
scripts to denote an error condition, and I wanted to reduce the  
chance that this would break existing scripts.

-Steve