Re: global hooks

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Johan Herland [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thursday 20 March 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
 > Victor Bogado da Silva Lins [off-list ref] writes:
 >
 > > SO my question is, is there a way to make that hook global to all
 > > projects? If not, would it be a good idea to allow this?
 >
 > Probably a post- git-init hook that lets you do anything to your newly
 > created repository would be the only thing that you need.  Then you can
 > copy, untar or even use symlink to muck with .git/hooks/ in whatever way
 > you please.
 >
 > There needs a mechanism for you to specify what that hook is, and it
 > cannot be in individual repositories, so it has to live in ~/.gitconfig
 > somewhere.

 Or you could add the hook (either the post-init hook, or for that matter
 the hook you want to make global) to the Git template directory on your
 system (/usr/share/git-core/templates by default). If you don't want to
 make it system-global (only user-global), I guess you could make your
 own Git template directory somewhere (copy the system's template dir,
 and add/enable whatever hooks you like), and set up an alias to
 "git init --template=<your_template_dir>". Then use this alias instead
 of "git init".

template dir is meaningful for static hooks. However, sometimes we
need dynamic hooks which change over time. Having a real global hook
can help to implement a single logic or policy spreading among
multiple repositories.

For example, we can enfore a policy to help to update the test or
deploy environent automatically: when repositories are pushed into a
central place, they are checked out into different places or hosts
automatically.

I think ~/.gitconfig is a good place to give such an entry point.



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