From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 21:59:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Is there any way to make hooks part of the repository?
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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?


-PJ

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