Re: post-checkout hook not run on clone

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:43:37PM -0800, layer wrote:

I realize this might be a feature, but when I switch to the master
branch with "git checkout master" it is, and I would think that a
clone that gets the master branch would also does a sort of "checkout
master" and would run the hook.

Right. Hooks are not cloned with the repo.

In any case, I'd be happy of there was a post-clone hook, instead, but
there isn't.

The general wisdom on the list is that it's a bad idea to run remote
code arbitrarily for security reasons (i.e., "git clone
git://host/foo.git" should not automatically run code from "host"). Even
if you are going to build and run the contents of "foo.git", you at
least have a chance to inspect the changes via git.

However, for situations where you are OK implicitly trusting the remote,
it is obviously less convenient.

Any suggestions?

Most suggestions I have seen involve shipping the hooks in your repo,
and then having users copy them to their .git/hooks directory (and you
can even provide a script for that).

Unfortunately, there is a chicken-and-egg problem there with the initial
checkout. You could do something like (assuming the hooks are in "hooks"
in the repo) to bootstrap:

  git clone -n <repo.git>
  cd repo
  git archive --format tar HEAD hooks | tar -C .git/hooks -xf -
  git checkout master

-Peff