Re: [PATCH v2] Run global hooks from the directory at hooks.dir

Brian Collins [off-list ref] writes:

Run global hooks in the directory specified by the config variable
hooks.dir before every attempt at running a local hook. If the
global hook fails, the local hook will not run. If the global hook is
absent, the local hook runs normally.

It is left unspecified what happens when the global hook exists and it
succeeds.  Watch out for hooks that read from their standard input.

In any case, the above is totally backwards from the usual practice and
expectation of local things overriding the global default.  If you want a
site-wide policy suggestion, default templates would be a more acceptable
way (and the implementation of hooks you install to developer repositories
can choose to look at $GIT_DIR/hooks/local-foo-hook).

By the way, with a distributed scm, anything-wide policy enforcement at
the level of developer's individual working repositories is a lost cause.
You are giving freedom to do anything on their own copy of the history to
the developers; the project-wide policy is to be enforced at the perimeter
of your authoritative repository of the project.