Re: cloning/pulling hooks

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 29, 2007, 13:49 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708291446011.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <b3889dff0708290618s79cffdb5nb6cc69d14efa8b9@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Benjamin Collins wrote:

> Of course, I understand why it's not already like that, particularly 
> given the context of Linux development practices.

It has nothing to do with Linux development practices. There are fundamental reasons why we don't fetch hooks:

- they are _not_ part of the repository; just look at the 
  .gitattributes-in-the-index-but-not-worktree issue to find out why,

- it is _private_ data, just like the config.  The client has _no 
  business_ to read them, let alone fetch them,

- if you have the hooks on different machines, chances are that you need a 
  mechanism to update the hooks... This naturally suggests putting the 
  hooks into their own branch.

Probably there are way more reasons not to allow such a thing as fetching hooks.

Ciao, Dscho