Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] update-hook: parse the tag header in preparation to use the tag type

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:38:44 -0400

Andy Parkins <[email-masked]> wrote:
> The tag header is parsed with a while loop and read command.  I'm not
> entirely sure how portable it is, as it had to use the following unusual
> heredoc format:
> 
>   while read field value
>   do
>     # ..
>   done <<< "$(some command)"

To bad you can't use for-each-ref.  ;-)

The problem of course is the update hook is running before a ref
is created to point at the tag.  If you used post-receive hook
on the other hand...  Oh, right, that has its own problems too!

-- 
Shawn.