On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 5:17 PM Bob Proulx <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Follow-up Comment #8, sr #110591 (project administration): > > Background: Earlier git created sample hook scripts in place and included this > comment. > > # To enable this hook, make this file executable. > > Which is to say that there will be a lot of these that are just original files > from when the repository was created. In addition to the custom modifications > such as the git_multimail.py commit diff email notifications that we have > added, and sometimes removed, from there. > > I think there are two main options to resolve the current issue globally. 1) > Update the config files, all 4643 of them, to disable this "hint:" from being > emitted. And 2) Rename the sample hook scripts from the in-place naming of > the earlier versions of git to the new git practice of naming them > hook-name.sample. > > Somewhat ironically there is no version history for the git repository config > and hook scripts. Therefore having file timestamps showing when the file was > last modified is the only clue left and extremely useful. I would like to > preserve that tiny clue. That pushes me to the second option of renaming > hooks to .sample like git creates now for new repositories. That avoids the > need to touch any dates anywhere. And the renamed files will of course > maintain their previous timestamps too. Since none of these have version > history this leaves as much debug trail as can exist for them. > > It's the same number of directories as config file. But one doesn't do this > by hand so it's just machine time either way. I'll script something up to fix > these en masse.
Thanks, Bob. That sounds perfect.
