From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:31:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Teach receive-pack to run pre-receive/post-receive hooks
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703071522030.5963@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070307215205.GE28649@spearce.org>



On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> To help this situation I am introducing two new hooks to the
> receive-pack flow: pre-receive and post-receive.  These new hooks
> are invoked only once per receive-pack execution and are passed
> three arguments per ref (refname, old-sha1, new-sha1).

Can you give a concise explanation of how "pre-receive" differ from the 
old "update", and how does "post-receive" differ from the old 
"post-update"?

		Linus