Re: [PATCH v9 4/4] hook: introduce the receive-report hook

> On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 04:51:39PM +0200, Karthik Nayak wrote:
>>[...]
>>Introduce a new 'receive-report' hook. The hook receives the complete
>>pkt-line encoded status report on standard input, after all ref updates
>>have been applied to the repository by execute_commands() but before the
>>report is sent to the client. See linkgit:gitprotocol-pack[5] details on
>>the protocol structure.
>
> i suppose it's a matter of taste/policy, but around this point i find
> the commit message's verbosity to be counter-productive:
>
>>The hook's stdout fully replaces the report sent to the client.
>>[...]
>
> i would cut it down to the parts that aren't redundant with the "proper"
> documentation in the diff, keeping in mind that the central question to
> be answered by the commit message is "why?".