Re: core.hooksPath cannot revert to the default locally

From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 16, 2024, 09:03 UTC
Message-ID: <dea863c3-7b54-4f8d-b6b0-6087b4cb1abe@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20241016022613.37813826@scaldcrow>

Hi Sam

On 16/10/2024 07:26, Sam Newbold wrote:

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>  From my testing, reading the documentation and hunting through the
> source code, it appears that if a system administrator sets the
> --system core.hooksPath or a script over which you have limited control
> sets the --global core.hooksPath, then there is no way for an
> individual repository to configure --local core.hooksPath to get the
> default behavior. The naive solution of setting core.hooksPath to be
> .git/hooks breaks in the case of worktrees.

I'm pretty sure I've used "git -c core.hookspath=/dev/null ..." in the past when I've wanted to temporarily disable my hooks path, I can't find anything in the documentation though. If

     git config core.hookspath /dev/null

does work for you it would be really helpful to update the documentation.

Best Wishes

Phillip

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> I would be happy to code a patch for this if I knew how it should be
> configured. Obviously, no local setting for a config variable is meant
> to inherit the global or system value. We can go all "set of the null
> set" by making the empty string mean "revert to default". We could go
> fancy "I know what you really mean" by interpreting ".git/hooks" (or
> perhaps any path beginning with ".git") not literally in the case of
> worktrees, but as relative to GIT_DIR. Or there could be another
> setting set on a local repository to ignore global and system values of
> core.hooksPath.
> 
> Thank you,
> Sam Newbold
>