On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:58:37PM +0200, Yaron Wittenstein wrote: > I'd like to make sure I understand the way things are right now: > > 1. The reference-transaction hook as it's today doesn't intercept > symbolic-references changes. It means that when HEAD changes due to > branch-switching the hook won't > get called. > > Are there any other cases that today the transaction won't execute? (I > couldn't think of one) No, I don't think so. > 2. The mechanisms that handle the changes to index and working-dir are > isolated from the one that manages the refs updates. > > A side-effect to that is the post-index-change hook running before the > reference-transaction one. > Future code changes to the way git operates could result in the > reference-transaction hook running before the post-index-change one. > > Is that correct? Yes, that matches my understanding. -Peff
