From: Hilco Wijbenga Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 21:09:36 GMT Subject: Re: Is there any way to make hooks part of the repository? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vaa1r8vhy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On 1 May 2012 14:03, Junio C Hamano wrote: > merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: > >>>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano writes: >> >> Junio> By design.  Do you want me to include "rm -fr ~hilco" in some hook of >> Junio> git.git repository? >> >> This just came up yesterday at $PRIMARY_CLIENT.  One idea we kicked >> around was having a convention for storing the hooks-to-be-populated in >> ".githooks" in the repository tree, and then having clone notice that >> and offer to install them directly if from a trusted source, or at least >> move them into a disabled state in .git/hooks otherwise. > > We've talked about something like that a few times in the past, but as far > as I (am concerned / remember) the conclusion has always been that is not > worth "standardizing", i.e. nothing a ./setup script in-tree or a Makefile > target cannot offer the same convenience. This would not keep things up-to-date, though, would it? It seems like yet another thing developers need to remember and do. I would prefer something more automatic.