From: jaseem abid Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 21:40:07 GMT Subject: Re: Arguments to git hooks Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20120506211120.GC5725@moj> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Marcus Karlsson wrote: > There are many different reasons to use hooks. If everything that a hook > could potentially need was passed to it as an argument then a lot of > data would often end up unused. Better to supply as little as possible > and only do more work when it's actually needed. That seems like a good reason not to pass all of the data, but isn't the file names the most primary thing somebody can ask for? >> Are you suggesting me to run some plumbing command, parse the result >> and get the required data ? Is there an easier way to get this done? > > I wouldn't go as deep as the plumbing, I think git status --porcelain > should work just fine, the output is fairly easy to parse. I have always wondered why 'git status --porcelain' is giving a 'plumbing' style output. Any docs on this somewhere? -- Jaseem Abid http://jaseemabid.github.com