From: Stefan Karpinski Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:26:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsserver: run post-update hook *after* update. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v3af1enkq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I think I've seen this one before and I thought it was a sensible thing to > do (and perhaps I even said so here). You said it looked sane but that I should resend CCing knowledgable parties. > Is this a resend? If so, let's queue it in at least 'next' and see if > anybody screams ;-). For a program near the fringe like cvsserver, not > many people run it but the small number of people who run it gets hurt > rather quickly if the updated behaviour breaks their existing practice, > and sometimes breaking things for them would be the only way to extract > any response. Yes, it is very unfortunate. Yes, it is a resend, but I expanded on the commit message, including my analysis of the potential impact.