Re: [PATCH] add a 'pre-push' hook

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I think the common wisdom has been that such tests should be done on the
_receiving_ end, since that makes a more trustworthy enforcement point.
E.g., I know that crap can't get into my central repo because a hook
checks everything coming in. But if a developer has turned off his
pre-push hook (or accidentally failed to enable it), he can still send
crap.

One other argument I have seen is that, to prevent the proliferation of
hooks, the rule is not to add a hook that could just as easily be done
as a sequence of commands. IOW, what's wrong with

  run_my_automated_tests && git push

Yup, I agree completely.

Why not just setup an alias:

       git config alias.send '! run_my_tests && git push "$@"'

and retrain your fingers to use "git send ..."?

--
Shawn.

Sorry, but couldn't this argument be made about any of the hooks run
after manual operations?  ie: pre-commit, pre-applypatch, commit-msg,
post-commit, post-applypatch?  I mean, couldn't you do :

git config alias.docommit '! do_pre_commit && git commit ...' ?

I thought the point of these kind of hooks was to make stuff like this
automatic and easy to standardize for a project, so people working on
a dozen git repos don't have to remember all the aliases they set up
in each one.

Scott