Re: request for discussion: repos hook system

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Justus Pendleton wrote:
> One thing I've often wanted is a hook to be able to modify the
> incoming check-ins and outgoing check-outs. One use I have forseen
> for this is coding standard formatting. The idea would be that upon
> check-in a project-wide script would normalize the code to the
> standard format. Upon checkout an individual specific script would
> reformat the code to that developer's personal preferences.

That's the wrong layer to implement such a check - better to have a
development policy that says "run this 'lint' program to make sure your
code conforms to our coding standards (etc) before every commit", so that
the developer has a chance to clean things up before it goes in. MHO.

        Brian

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:33 2006