While I had known about git stash, and just never used it, I'd finally
gotten to the point where it was needed, only to discover something that
I found interesting.
My use case may a bit rare at the moment, I'll admit, but not at all
far-fetched, and probably growing in usage as time goes on.
In contrib/hooks is the script 'setgitperms.perl' which, when added to
pre-commit, post-merge, and post-checkout, makes sure to track the file
permissions fully, not just +/-x. This can be vitally important for
webdevelopers who must keep certain permissions on certain directories,
such as for e-commerce solutions like Magento, etc, so that the clients
may upload new product images through the interface rather than via ftp.
However when I recently used stash to push some changes aside while I
did something else first, and then ran git stash pop, I realized that
there weren't any hooks that would enable setgitperms.perl to be
ensuring/tracking the file permissions are applied correctly after stash
usage.
Granted that full directory/file permissions may not be all that
important to some of you coders, but I can assure you that web
developers may not see it that way.
Again granted, I could probably set up a Makefile, but not everyone
knows how to do that (particularly those webdevelopers who aren't coders
who would typically be familiar with Makefiles.
Also granted I could probably find a way to work around this issue with
an alias, but my thought is that I shouldn't have to.
There are some of us who exist who have this funny thought that
computers should be able to do things for us without us having to
explicitly tell them to, specifically, every time. We'd prefer to set
things up generally "just do this EVERY time for EVERYthing" and forget
about it, and let the computer handle it. I'm sure you're familiar with
us, since we are us. :-)
So, with this in mind, in addition to requesting pre/post-stash hooks
just for this alone, I'd like to solicit some thought from the rest of
you as to potential possible usages/requirements for said hooks for
reasons _other_ than running 'setgitperms.perl'
Are there any reasons why pre/post-stash hooks _shouldn't_ exist?
How difficult would it be to implement?
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