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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Josh England" <jjengla@sandia•gov>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add post-merge hook.
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:03:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vodgimc53.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188934573.6192.35.camel@beauty> (Josh England's message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:36:13 -0600")

"Josh England" <jjengla@sandia•gov> writes:

> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 10:25 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "Josh England" <jjengla@sandia•gov> writes:
>> 
>> >> Two questions.
>> >> 
>> >>  * Do you want to run the post-merge hook even for a squash
>> >>    merge?
>> >
>> > Yes.  I'd like to run it at any time that the working tree might be
>> > updated.
>> 
>> If that is the case, perhaps your hook may want to get a
>> parameter to tell it what kind of "git-merge" invocation it was?
>> Squash merge does not even advance the HEAD and is of a very
>> different nature from a normal merge.
>
> OK.  Should it just pass in a flag (squash or normal), or are there
> other merge types it should need to know about.

I suspect you have thought abuot the issues involved longer than
I have ;-), so you should take whatever I say with grain of
salt, but I think you would also want to know fast-forwards and
up-to-dates if the hook wants to be generic, not "for Josh's
workflow only".

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-04 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30 22:40 [PATCH] Add post-merge hook jjengla
2007-08-30 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-04 16:25   ` Josh England
2007-09-04 17:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-04 19:36       ` Josh England
2007-09-04 20:03         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-09-04 20:32           ` Josh England
2007-09-04 20:52             ` Steven Grimm
2007-09-04 21:23               ` Josh England

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