From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 21:32:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] hooks: allow input from stdin for commit-related hooks
Message-ID: <xmqqwnyhvxra.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSN=-7KWgDcXM8po44PEKi27U6mJEEL0mj_wrTJBUf=WA@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> Rather than making such a fundamental change and having to deal with
> the fallout by introducing complexity to handle various special-cases
> which pop up now and in the future, I wonder if it makes more sense to
> instead just update documentation to tell hook authors to read
> explicitly from the console rather than expecting stdin to be
> available (since stdin may already be consumed for other purposes when
> dealing with hooks or commands which invoke the hooks).

;-)

Thanks for saying this.