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Re: [PATCH] Add a post-tag hook

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Ammon Riley <ammon.riley@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2009, 22:28 UTC
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Ammon Riley <ammon.riley@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Add a post-tag hook, to allow notifications when a tag is created.
>> The hook is given the name of the newly created tag.
>
> Why would you want to send notifications upon creating a tag in
> your local repository?
>
> Usually a tag is only interesting when it has been sent to a shared
> public repository, which is by git push, and thus is caught by a
> git receive-pack hook like post-update or post-receive.

On the particular project I'm working on, we're not really using git in the most distributed fashion -- it's completely internal to the company. In our case, the tags are being created directly on the shared repository, rather than on a local repository and being pushed.

Cheers, Ammon

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  1. Add a post-tag hookAmmon Riley, Apr 17, 2009
  2. Shawn O. PearceApr 17, 2009
  3. Ammon RileyApr 17, 2009
  4. Pat NotzApr 24, 2009

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