Jakub, Thank-you for your reply and your advice about the subject. I apologize for the vagueness of the previous one. I see the templates directory now. Thanks again. -------------------------- Regards, Marlene Cote Affirmed Networks 978-268-0821 ->-----Original Message----- ->From: Jakub Narebski [mailto:jnareb@xxxxxxxxx] ->Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 1:58 PM ->To: Marlene Cote ->Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ->Subject: Re: help for a git newbie please -> ->Marlene Cote <Marlene_Cote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: -> ->> I don't understand the docs when they talk about hooks. I have ->> tried making my .git/hooks samples executable and they don't have ->> any suffix to remove, so they should just run. However, every time ->> I make a new clone, the changes I made to the hooks are gone. Just ->> the samples get put into the clone again. How do I put a hook in ->> place that every developer will get and execute? If I should be ->> using server side hooks, where exactly would those go? Should I ->> modify the hooks under my repositories directory? -> ->First, for the future, could you please use more specific subject? ->"Help for a git newbie please" doesn't tell us _anything_ about what ->problem do you have with git on first glance. -> ->Second, hooks are not versioned and not under version control. They ->are not transferred on clone either. There are reasons for that, ->including the safety (running code under control of other side), and ->the fact that hooks are usually configured to local needs, so they ->might not make sense for other people. -> -> ->Now, if you either use some kind of networked filesystem, or you can ->configure it so each developers machine has the same install, you can ->make use of git templates mechanism. This is the way git includes ->sample hooks in newly created repositories (git init, git clone, or ->even IIRC "git init" on existing repository). -> ->Those template files are by default (on Linux) installed in ->/usr/share/git-core/templates. So what you can do is to put hooks you ->want each developer to have (either as executable hook, or as hook ->sample) in /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/ directory (or its ->equivalent in your installation). -> ->I hope that helps. -> ->-- ->Jakub Narebski ->Poland ->ShadeHawk on #git -- 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