How-to checkin git hook

I have not been able to find out how to commit and push a hook to my git server archive for everyone's benefit. The githooks man page does not describe this and I have not turned up any fruitful google searches on the topic.

I am trying to add a post-checkout hook. I also noticed that the post-checkout sample does not exist when I init a new archive. Is this a bug? I am running git version 1.6.0.2.

Regards,
Joe

No, it's security. Hooks are executable files and shouldn't blindly be copied around for security reasons.

Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund
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No. It didn't occurred to anyone before to push repository's configuration and service files (the hooks). Everybody just copied them into the server repositories or edited them in place.

If the server is a public place like github, it is not very likely they allow you to run anything you like on their servers (and hooks are programs).

Thanks for the info.

How do people typically manage the hooks for their projects? These may change over the life of the project and may be project version dependent. Is the best way to place them into another subdir within your project with instructions on updating the hooks files? Looks like a step that would be prone to errors though.

And how about the fact that post-checkout.sample is missing in the release I am using. Is this the only one missing or are there others?

It would also be a good idea if the githooks man page explains this. Maybe when I better understand how hooks are best managed, I will provide my thoughts on the man page.

Regards,
Joe