From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:07:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] hook: teach --porcelain mode
Message-ID: <xmqqwob2ms7i.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191211220039.GB8464@google.com>

Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:

>> So, a Porcelain script cannot learn where the hook command comes
>> from,
>
> Not as I had envisioned.
>
>> or what the precedence order of each line of the output is?
>> 
>
> They're printed in the order they should be executed; the explicit order
> isn't provided.
>
>
> I suppose I had considered really just the one use case listed in the
> commit message, especially since other inquiry into the hooks to be run
> can be done against the config files themselves. But - I'm of course
> open to use cases. What did you have in mind?

A tool to diagnose why the hooks are not firing in the order the
user intended them to, for example?

Or a tool to help editing the list of hooks.