Re: RFE: default hooks for git repositories

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> Since V2 creates git shards automatically, I suggest there should be a way
> to tell it to install some set of default hooks in all new git repos it
> creates. The easiest would be by using a skel dir and specifying it in
> PI_CONFIG:
> 
> [publicinbox]
>  githooksskel=/usr/share/public-inbox/hooks

Seems reasonable.  Though "gitInitTemplateDir" would probably be
easier-to-implement and cover hooks.  This should let us avoid
creating needless "branches" directories and "info/exclude"
files, as well.

Curious, what hooks do you use?  I've never used any.

> We currently do it via a cronjob, but unless we run it very frequently,
> there's a delay between when a new shard is created and when we add the
> hooks to it.

I've also been thinking of a way to get mirrors to automatically
know about new epochs, too.  Maybe submodules can be used...


Note: I prefer the "epoch" term for the $N.git dirs over "shard"
      to disambiguate it from the Xapian partitioning we do.