Re: Feature request: hooks directory

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

There is interest in this. This E-Mail of mine gives a good summary of
prior discussions about this:
https://public-inbox.org/git/877eqqnq22.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/

I.e. it's something I've personally been interested in doing in the
past, there's various bolt-on solutions to do it (basically local hook
runners) used by various projects.

A few unrelated thoughts, to expand on this.

Reports of experience from using local hook runners would be very
welcome so we can benefit from their good ideas and avoid their bad
ones.  That was part of the motivation for not building this in for so
long: we want people to experiment so that the result can be something
that works well for a lot of people.

Separately from that, in [1] I mentioned that I want to revamp how
hooks work somewhat, to avoid the attack described there (or the more
common attack also described there that involves a zip file).  Such a
revamp would be likely to also handle this multiple-hook use case.

As a word of caution, today we support having multiple credential
helpers in use and it's a nightmare to support.  The layering model is
complicated and users don't understand it.  So we might want to try to
avoid whatever went wrong there. ;-)

Thanks,
Jonathan

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171002234517.GV19555@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com/