Re: [PATCH] mingw: allow hooks to be .exe files

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 26, 2017, 13:45 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701261441290.3469@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq37g6akfx.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > This change is necessary to allow the files in .git/hooks/ to optionally
> > have the file extension `.exe` on Windows, as the file names are
> > hardcoded otherwise.
> 
> Hmph.  There is no longer ".com"?

No, no longer .com. You have to jump through hoops in this century to build .com files.

> I briefly wondered if hooks/post-receive.{py,rb,...} would be good
> things to support, but I do not think we want to go there, primarily
> because we do not want to deal with "what happens when there are many?"

The answer is correct, the reasoning not. The reason why .exe is special: it simply won't execute unless it has the .exe file extension. That is not true for .py, .rb, etc

Ciao, Johannes