From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 22:21:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Is there any way to make hooks part of the repository?
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On 1 May 2012 14:59, PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1 May 2012 14:03, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>
> Once your hooks are installed, couldn't your post-checkout and
> post-merge hooks keep all the others up to date?

Excellent point. Yes, that would certainly work.