Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > This hook is invoked before a branch is updated, either when a branch is >> > created or updated with 'git branch', or when it's rebased with 'git >> > rebase'. It receives three parameters; the name of the branch, the >> > SHA-1 of the latest commit, and the SHA-1 of the first commit of the >> > branch. >> > >> > When a branch is created the first and last commits of the branch are >> > the same, however when a branch is rebased they are not. If the SHA-1 of >> > the first commit of the branch is not available (e.g. git reset) a null >> > SHA-1 (40 zeroes) would be passed. >> > >> > The hook exit status can be used to deny the branch update. >> > >> > It can be used to verify the validity of branch names, and also to keep >> > track of the origin point of a branch, which is otherwise not possible >> > to find out [1]. >> >> Please call it pre-update-branch at least, > > I will do so when I see a good argument for it. If you choose to ignore "a user cannot tell from the name update-branch when it will be called, we cannot introduce post-update-branch later without making things more inconsistent if we do not name it pre-something" and label them not "a good argument", then I do not have anything to say to you. -- 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