Placing the contrib hooks into /usr/share/doc/ wasn't a good idea in the first place. According to the Debian policy they should be located in /usr/share/git-core/, so let's put them there. Thanks to Bill Allombert for reporting this through http://bugs.debian.org/640949 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:44:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email > > +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email > > @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ > > # will have put this somewhere standard. You should make this > > script > > # executable then link to it in the repository you would like to > > use it in. > > # For example, on debian the hook is stored in > > -# /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: > > +# /usr/share/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: > > # > > # chmod a+x post-receive-email > > # cd /path/to/your/repository.git > > -# ln -sf /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email > > hooks/post-receive > > +# ln -sf /usr/share/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email > > hooks/post-receive > > This one I do not have any problem with; the leading text makes it > very > clear that this is an example that is specific to Debian and that is > good enough to signal readers that they may have to look elsewhere if > they > are on a different distribution. > Ok, thanks. I stripped this patch to just touch this file. Regards, Gerrit. contrib/hooks/post-receive-email | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email index fa6d41a..ba077c1 100755 --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ # will have put this somewhere standard. You should make this script # executable then link to it in the repository you would like to use it in. # For example, on debian the hook is stored in -# /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: +# /usr/share/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: # # chmod a+x post-receive-email # cd /path/to/your/repository.git -# ln -sf /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email hooks/post-receive +# ln -sf /usr/share/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email hooks/post-receive # # This hook script assumes it is enabled on the central repository of a # project, with all users pushing only to it and not between each other. It -- 1.7.6.3 -- 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