Re: [PATCH] Allow update hooks to update refs on their own

On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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+The hook may optionally choose to update the ref on its own, e.g.,
+if it needs to modify incoming revisions in some way. If it updates
+the ref, it should exit with a status of 100.

Why 100, and not for example 127, 128 or -1?

Because those seemed much more likely to be used by existing hook  
scripts to denote an error condition, and I wanted to reduce the  
chance that this would break existing scripts.

-Steve