Hi, As we all know the hooks ( in .git/hooks ) are not cloned along with the code of a project. Now this is a correct approach for the scripts that do stuff like emailing the people responsible for releases or submitting the commit to a CI system.
For several other things it makes a lot of sense to give the developer immediate feedback. Things like the format of the commit message (i.e. it must start with an issue tracker id) or compliance with a coding standard. Initially I wanted to propose introducing fully clonable (pre-commit) hook scripts. However I can imagine that a malicious opensource coder can create a github repo and try to hack the computer of a contributer via those scripts. So having such scripts is a 'bad idea'. If those scripts were how ever written in a language that is build into the git program and the script are run in such a way that they can only interact with the files in the local git (and _nothing_ outside of that) this would be solved. Also have a builtin scripting language also means that this would run on all operating systems (yes, even Windows). So I propose the following new feature: 1) A scripting language is put inside git. Perhaps a version of python or ruby or go or ... (no need for a 'new' language) 2) If a project contains a folder called .githooks in the root of the code base then the rules/scripts that are present there are executed ONLY on the system doing the actual commit. These scripts are run in such a limited way that they can only read the files in the repository, they cannot do any networking/write to disk/etc and they can only do a limited set op actions against the current operation at hand (i.e. do checks, parse messages, etc). 3) For the regular hooks this language is also support and when located in the (not cloned!) .git/hooks directory they are just as powerful as a normal script (i.e. can control CI, send emails, etc.). Like I said, this is just a proposal and I would like to know what you guys think. -- Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, Niels Basjes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
