Re: [PATCH] respect core.hooksPath, falling back to .git/hooks

Hi Philipp,

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, Philipp Gortan wrote:

Signed-off-by: Philipp Gortan <redacted>

I just saw this. I made sure that the thread to which I just replied did
not have any news from you, but you simply started a new thread ;-)

This commit message needs a little bit of love. Something along the lines:

	Since v2.9.0, Git knows about the config variable core.hookspath
	that allows overriding the path to the directory containing the
	Git hooks.

	Since v2.10.0, the `--git-path` option respects that config
	variable, too, so we may just as well use that command.

	For Git versions older than v2.5.0 (which was the first version to
	support the `--git-path` option for the `rev-parse` command), we
	simply fall back to the previous code.

(This assumes that you'll go with the approach I outlined in the other
thread, comparing the Git version to 2.5.0 and going with --git-path if
available.)

---

The following patch tries to fix git-gui to respect the core.hooksPath config
variable, falling back to the old behavior.

That would also have been a decent commit message, if a bit short. But you
need to put this text before the `---` line, even before the
`Signed-off-by:` footer.

Did you not mean [get_config core.hookspath] here, i.e. get_config and the
key all lower-case?

+		set hooksdir [gitdir hooks]
+	}
+	set pchook [file join $hooksdir $hook_name]
 	lappend args 2>@1
 

The problem I see with that is, as I mentioned in the other thread, that
it duplicates the logic in config.c that may change at any stage.

Even worse: it is inconsistent with the way Git handles core.hooksPath, if
the installed `git` executable predates v2.9.0. Git GUI explicitly allows
for being used with a large range of Git versions.

In short: I think it would be better to go with the approach I outlined in
the other thread. I'll reproduce the patch (completely untested) here:

-- snipsnap --

diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
index 37c1c5d227b..3067a3b000a 100755
--- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh

@@ -624,7 +624,11 @@ proc git_write {args} {
 }
 
 proc githook_read {hook_name args} {
-	set pchook [gitdir hooks $hook_name]
+	if {[package vcompare $::_git_version 2.5.0] >= 0} {
+		set pchook [git rev-parse --git-path "hooks/$hook_name"]
+	} else {
+		set pchook [gitdir hooks $hook_name]
+	}
 	lappend args 2>@1
 
 	# On Windows [file executable] might lie so we need to ask