pre-commit hook question

pre-commit hook question

[Nick Dimov]

Hello everyone.
Im struggling for a couple of hours to make git store metadata of the
files using metastore and I use hooks/pre-commit for this. The problem
is that the script is invoked correctly, and modifies the file
"metadata" but the file itself is not added into commit. I tried calling
"git add metadata" and "git add -u metadata" but there is no effect. The
file ends up uncommited and marked as modified or staged BUT not
commited, ever.

Is there any way to make this work?
Basically, I want it to update and commit the file "metadata" on each
commit.
(then i want to make the same on checkout, but first i need to make
storing work correctly)

Thanks!

P.S. If you are wondering why I need this, the answer is I store OS
files for an embedded device which needs permisions/suid flags etc.

Re: pre-commit hook question

[Junio C Hamano]

Nick Dimov <dimovnike@gmail.com> writes:

> Im struggling for a couple of hours to make git store metadata of the
> files using metastore and I use hooks/pre-commit for this.

The pre-commit hook is about checking if the commits being created
is sensible and rejecting otherwise, and it is not designed to allow
futzing what is recorded behind the user's back.