Hi Philipp, On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, Philipp Gortan wrote: > Signed-off-by: Philipp Gortan <philipp@xxxxxxxxxx> I just saw this. I made sure that the thread to which I just replied did not have any news from you, but you simply started a new thread ;-) This commit message needs a little bit of love. Something along the lines: Since v2.9.0, Git knows about the config variable core.hookspath that allows overriding the path to the directory containing the Git hooks. Since v2.10.0, the `--git-path` option respects that config variable, too, so we may just as well use that command. For Git versions older than v2.5.0 (which was the first version to support the `--git-path` option for the `rev-parse` command), we simply fall back to the previous code. (This assumes that you'll go with the approach I outlined in the other thread, comparing the Git version to 2.5.0 and going with --git-path if available.) > --- > > The following patch tries to fix git-gui to respect the core.hooksPath config > variable, falling back to the old behavior. That would also have been a decent commit message, if a bit short. But you need to put this text before the `---` line, even before the `Signed-off-by:` footer. > diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh > index 5bc21b8..a5335b1 100755 > --- a/git-gui.sh > +++ b/git-gui.sh > @@ -624,7 +624,10 @@ proc git_write {args} { > } > > proc githook_read {hook_name args} { > - set pchook [gitdir hooks $hook_name] > + if {[catch {set hooksdir [git config core.hooksPath]}]} { Did you not mean [get_config core.hookspath] here, i.e. get_config and the key all lower-case? > + set hooksdir [gitdir hooks] > + } > + set pchook [file join $hooksdir $hook_name] > lappend args 2>@1 > The problem I see with that is, as I mentioned in the other thread, that it duplicates the logic in config.c that may change at any stage. Even worse: it is inconsistent with the way Git handles core.hooksPath, if the installed `git` executable predates v2.9.0. Git GUI explicitly allows for being used with a large range of Git versions. In short: I think it would be better to go with the approach I outlined in the other thread. I'll reproduce the patch (completely untested) here: -- snipsnap -- diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh index 37c1c5d227b..3067a3b000a 100755 --- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh +++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh @@ -624,7 +624,11 @@ proc git_write {args} { } proc githook_read {hook_name args} { - set pchook [gitdir hooks $hook_name] + if {[package vcompare $::_git_version 2.5.0] >= 0} { + set pchook [git rev-parse --git-path "hooks/$hook_name"] + } else { + set pchook [gitdir hooks $hook_name] + } lappend args 2>@1 # On Windows [file executable] might lie so we need to ask