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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook
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Ethan Benson |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook |
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Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:57:06 -0800 |
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On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:57:38PM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:18:00PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > so you propose
> > pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-commit
> > etc etc instead?
>
> You're missing his point.*
>
> There are limited number of point at which hooks are invoked in tla. They
> all have names, which are chosen to hopefully reflect what they mean, but are
> in some sense arbitrary. If there were a need for some hook _before_
> pre-commit, it probably wouldn't be called `pre-pre-commit', but rather
> something like `pre-commit-FOO', where FOO might be something like `pre-lint'
> if it happened before commit's tree-lint (just an example, I've no idea
> whether it makes sense!).
>
> On the other hand, if there were multiple hook files arranged time-wise, as
> you suggest, one couldn't use such suggestive names because the hook files
> are not operation-specific. The mapping of hook points to which hook file
> they were in would be (I think) a source of much confusion, especially if
> some operations like commit did end up needing multiple hooks.
>
> Does that make sense?
yes it does, thank you for this explanation, far more helpful then
what the other prick had to say.
> Thanks,
>
> -Miles
>
> * I gotta stop using that phrase; it seems like every other message in this
> mailing list begins with it, half of them in an overly snarky manner.
agreed.
> Alternatively, perhaps it could have the meaning formalized out of it, like
> a salutation; _everybody_ should start their messages with:
>
> I think you're missing the point,
adding `i think' to it makes it sound far less arrogant and pretentious.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Mark A. Flacy, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Mark A. Flacy, 2003/10/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Robert Collins, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Robert Collins, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Miles Bader, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Miles Bader, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook,
Ethan Benson <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Mark A. Flacy, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Mark A. Flacy, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Ethan Benson, 2003/10/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2003/10/05
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Patch : precomimt hook, Erik de Castro Lopo, 2003/10/02
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Patch : precomimt hook, Paul Hedderly, 2003/10/03