From: Matthieu Moy Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:12:09 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC v2] git-multimail: a replacement for post-receive-email Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201302131526.57342.andyparkins@gmail.com> Andy Parkins writes: > On Wednesday 13 February 2013 14:56:25 Matthieu Moy wrote: >> Michael Haggerty writes: > >> I think adding a short "dependencies" section in the README (or in an >> INSTALL file) saying which Python version works could save new users the >> trouble (I see the sheebang inside the scripts says python2 but since I >> couldn't use my system's python and called >> "path/to/python git_multimail.py", this didn't help). Making the script >> portable with python 2 and 3 would be awesome ;-). > > For my 2p worth, I don't like seeing hooks called like this. Particular those > that come as part of the standard installation. What do you mean by "like this" ? > I call mine by installing little scripts like this (on Debian): > > #!/bin/sh > # stored as $GIT_WORK_DIR/.git/hooks/post-receive-email > exec /bin/sh /usr/share/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email Yes, this is what I was doing (with path/to/python instead of /bin/sh, and git_multimail.py, or more precisely path/to/git_multimail.py, instead of post-receive-email). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/