From: Ammon Riley Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:28:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a post-tag hook Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090417221944.GS23604@spearce.org> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Ammon Riley 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