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Re: Is there any way to make hooks part of the repository?

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HWHilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
Date
May 3, 2012, 17:05 UTC
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On 3 May 2012 02:00, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
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> Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Matthieu is *not* talking about auditing nastiness going into the
>>> project's repository; he is talking is about a chance to audit whatever
>>> comes from the project's repository that *could* potentially contain some
>>> nastiness before it causes harm to your working environment. In other
>>> words, not *having* to trust what is in the project's repository, but
>>> having a way to verify.
>>
>> Perhaps these automatic hooks should only be applicable for "outgoing"
>> changes like commit and push? That way you can review the hooks before
>> they run but you still have a chance to prevent developer errors from
>> getting to the server/other people (which is really all I care about,
>> I am looking for a way to protect developers from making silly
>> mistakes).
>
> Shouldn't those checks be made server-side with a pre-receive hook?

Firstly, see my original email: we have no such access to the server. Secondly, (now that I've thought about it a bit more), it makes more sense to do it on the "client" instead of having the server do all the work for everybody. (Fail early, fail fast.)

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Message 17 of 18 in “Is there any way to make hooks part of the repository?”
  1. Hilco WijbengaMay 1, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2012
  3. Randal L. SchwartzMay 1, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2012
  5. Hilco WijbengaMay 1, 2012
  6. PJ WeisbergMay 1, 2012
  7. Hilco WijbengaMay 1, 2012
  8. Nathan GrayMay 2, 2012
  9. Hilco WijbengaMay 2, 2012
  10. Hilco WijbengaMay 1, 2012
  11. Hilco WijbengaMay 1, 2012
  12. Matthieu MoyMay 2, 2012
  13. Hilco WijbengaMay 2, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2012
  15. Hilco WijbengaMay 2, 2012
  16. Thomas RastMay 3, 2012
  17. Hilco WijbengaMay 3, 2012
  18. Johan HerlandMay 4, 2012

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