Re: [QUESTION] Tracking HEAD changes?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 04:03:14PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:21:55PM +0200, Yaron Wittenstein wrote:

quoted

That indeed seems to do the trick.
I've done a little experiment and saw that when doing git reset the
hook gets called.

However, when switching branches the hook doesn't execute :(

I don't understand if it's intentional, since when I've moved to a new
branch HEAD pointed to another commit id.
The only workaround I see here is using the post-checkout hook in addition.

Hmm, I would have thought that the branch switch would trigger the hooks
because they're updating HEAD. I wonder if that is a bug (or lack of
feature :) ) in the transaction hooks, or something Patrick did
intentionally.

-Peff

It was done semi-intentionally, or at least with the knowledge that
symrefs aren't covered. This is mostly because they're not covered by
the reference transaction mechanism itself.

But this again reminds me that I still have to update the documentation
of the hook to at least make it more explicit what's currently covered
and what's not.

Patrick