Re: [QUESTION] Tracking HEAD changes?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 24, 2021, 21:03 UTC
Message-ID: <YDa/EupbrNa62r+D@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGgn8PcPtLNtZTmMqKKTmH3KOezkr-jY7aTEDA-0dvYWuzid9A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:21:55PM +0200, Yaron Wittenstein wrote:

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> That indeed seems to do the trick.
> I've done a little experiment and saw that when doing git reset the
> hook gets called.
> 
> However, when switching branches the hook doesn't execute :(
> 
> I don't understand if it's intentional, since when I've moved to a new
> branch HEAD pointed to another commit id.
> The only workaround I see here is using the post-checkout hook in addition.

Hmm, I would have thought that the branch switch would trigger the hooks because they're updating HEAD. I wonder if that is a bug (or lack of feature :) ) in the transaction hooks, or something Patrick did intentionally.

-Peff