On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ammon Riley <ammon.riley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Add a post-tag hook, to allow notifications when a tag is created. >> The hook is given the name of the newly created tag. > > Why would you want to send notifications upon creating a tag in > your local repository? > > Usually a tag is only interesting when it has been sent to a shared > public repository, which is by git push, and thus is caught by a > git receive-pack hook like post-update or post-receive. On the particular project I'm working on, we're not really using git in the most distributed fashion -- it's completely internal to the company. In our case, the tags are being created directly on the shared repository, rather than on a local repository and being pushed. Cheers, Ammon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html