From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 21:22:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] hook: support a --to-stdin=<path> option
Message-ID: <xmqqpmajq2cx.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <patch-v2-5.5-b4e02f41194-20230208T191924Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
>
> Expose the "path_to_stdin" API added in the preceding commit in the
> "git hook run" command.
>
> For now we won't be using this command interface outside of the tests,
> but exposing this functionality makes it easier to test the hook
> API. The plan is to use this to extend the "sendemail-validate"
> hook[1][2].

OK.

What does it take to tackle the obvious leftover bits of [4/5]?  Use
tempfile API to allocate a temporary file, slurp the input and close
it, and then use the "path_to_stdin" feature to spawn the hook?