Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On 4/21/2014 2:17 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > >> Ilya Bobyr wrote: > >> > >>> Also, most have names that start with either "pre-" or "post-". > >>> It seems reasonable for both "pre-update-branch" and > >>> "post-update-branch" to exist. > >> I don't see what would be the point in that. > > > > Do you see the point in the other hooks doing that? > > pre- and post- are primarily so that people can tell that "pre- > happens before the operation and its primary motivation is to stop > an operation from happening" as opposed to "post- is called after > the fact and there is no way for it to intervene---it is too late; > it is primarily for things like logging" easily. > > As long as you can tell what you can use it for and when it is > called from the name of the hook, there is no fundamental reason why > you need to have pre- or post- prefix in your hook names, but unless > there is no other strong reason not to, it is probably a good idea > to follow suit. There is not much value in trying to be "original" > in naming things, just to be different; it will only confuse the > users. It's not original; there are _already_ hooks without pre/post. And it's not confusing, "update-branch" doesn't tell much, not any hook name could, that's what the documentation is for. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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