Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:
...; is it safe to assume that the
default template post-update hook shipped with GIT will be
good-to-be-autoenabled on public repositories
I do not think that is an unreasonable assumption. After all,
sample hooks are there to help people setting up common usage
patterns, not to show off flashy but irrelevant-to-the-real-world-needs
features ;-).
Please yell loudly when somebody posts a patch or brings up a
proposal to break that assumption in the future.