Hi, On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Petr Baudis wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:49:45PM CEST, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Benjamin Collins wrote: > > > > > Of course, I understand why it's not already like that, particularly > > > given the context of Linux development practices. > > > > It has nothing to do with Linux development practices. There are > > fundamental reasons why we don't fetch hooks: > > > > - they are _not_ part of the repository; just look at the > > .gitattributes-in-the-index-but-not-worktree issue to find out why, > > > > - it is _private_ data, just like the config. The client has _no > > business_ to read them, let alone fetch them, > > > > - if you have the hooks on different machines, chances are that you need a > > mechanism to update the hooks... This naturally suggests putting the > > hooks into their own branch. > > > > Probably there are way more reasons not to allow such a thing as fetching > > hooks. > > these are all really just technical details - if we decided that it > _is_ useful to have a mechanism to manage hooks, it really is no problem > to introduce some easy-to-use automated way to keep .git/hooks/ updated > based on some head, have .git-hooks/ as part of your current branch, or > whatever. And of course, "fetching hooks" may not (and very frequently > you wouldn't ever want it to) mean "grabbing the same hooks the server > uses". I think that they are way more than just technical issues: the chicken-and-egg problem is certainly _not_ a technical issue. Besides, another very valid issue is that of portability. Hooks can be _any_ executables. Not just scripts. Not just _bash_ scripts. The other issue I raised, however, seemed to die away in the other noise: _Why_ on earth do you want to put something into the SCM specific meta-data which should be part of the build process _to begin with_? _All_ of the arguments I read are along the lines "we want to enforce some coding styles" or similar. These issues are _orthogonal_ to the question which SCM is used. Ciao, Dscho - 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
