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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 3/3] Add 'update-branch' hook
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:22:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8uqvyc53.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53582bb6ceb64_24448772ecaf@nysa.notmuch> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:08:06 -0500")

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com> writes:
>> 
>> > This hook is invoked before a branch is updated, either when a branch is
>> > created or updated with 'git branch', or when it's rebased with 'git
>> > rebase'.  It receives three parameters; the name of the branch, the
>> > SHA-1 of the latest commit, and the SHA-1 of the first commit of the
>> > branch.
>> >
>> > When a branch is created the first and last commits of the branch are
>> > the same, however when a branch is rebased they are not. If the SHA-1 of
>> > the first commit of the branch is not available (e.g. git reset) a null
>> > SHA-1 (40 zeroes) would be passed.
>> >
>> > The hook exit status can be used to deny the branch update.
>> >
>> > It can be used to verify the validity of branch names, and also to keep
>> > track of the origin point of a branch, which is otherwise not possible
>> > to find out [1].
>> 
>> Please call it pre-update-branch at least,
>
> I will do so when I see a good argument for it.

If you choose to ignore "a user cannot tell from the name
update-branch when it will be called, we cannot introduce
post-update-branch later without making things more inconsistent if
we do not name it pre-something" and label them not "a good
argument", then I do not have anything to say to you.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-23 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-23 19:42 [RFC/PATCH v2 0/3] New 'update-branch' hook Felipe Contreras
2014-04-23 19:42 ` [RFC/PATCH v2 1/3] sh-setup: export GIT_DIR Felipe Contreras
2014-04-23 20:01   ` Jeff King
2014-04-23 20:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-23 19:42 ` [RFC/PATCH v2 2/3] run-command: make sure hooks have always GIT_DIR Felipe Contreras
2014-04-23 20:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-23 21:15     ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-23 19:42 ` [RFC/PATCH v2 3/3] Add 'update-branch' hook Felipe Contreras
2014-04-23 20:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-23 21:08     ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-23 21:22       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-04-23 21:35         ` Felipe Contreras

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