Re: why lines of hooks?

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:17:06PM -0500, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> > Euh... I don't understand why the repos/conf/*.txt files are *text* files
> > containing lists of programs to invoke for the hooks. Why aren't they simply
> > shell scripts? IOW, why the indirection?
>...
> I simply didn't think of it -- you're right, it's legacy. :-)
>
> Your idea is lovely, we should do it. I think it's probably a
> _really_ change, too, just a matter of losing some code. I'll look
> into it tomorrow and likely do it, unless there's some unexpectedly
> complicated side-effect.

Cool!

> We don't even need to insist that they be shell scripts, they'll just
> be programs that are passed certain arguments in a certain order.
> We'll ship with shell scripts there by default, with explanatory
> comments in them. The scripts names will be `pre-commit',
> `post-commit', etc. Most users will just add stuff to the scripts,
> but really ambitious sites can replace them wholesale.

Right-o.

Back to coding...

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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