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That work described the reasons, possible features, and possible workflows, but not the implementation in detail. This patch set has an MVP implementation, and my hope is that having a concrete implementation to look at makes it easier to discuss matters of implementation. This but does not use any features from es/config-based-hooks but is implemented on that branch anyway because firstly, I need an existing command to attach the "autoupdate" subcommand (and "git hook" works), and secondly, when we test this at $DAYJOB, we will be testing it together with the aforementioned branch. I have had to make several design choices (which I will discuss later), but now with this implementation, the following workflow is possible: 1. The remote repo administrator creates a new branch "refs/heads/suggested-hooks" pointing to a commit that has all the hooks that the administrator wants to suggest. The hooks are directly referenced by the commit tree (i.e. they are in the "/" directory). 2. When a user clones, Git notices that "refs/remotes/origin/suggested-hooks" is present and prints out a message about a command that can be run. 3. If the user runs that command, Git will install the hooks pointed to by that ref, and set hook.autoupdate to true. This config variable is checked whenever "git fetch" is run: whenever it notices that "refs/remotes/origin/suggested-hooks" changes, it will reinstall the hooks. 4. To turn off autoupdate, set hook.autoupdate to false. Existing hooks will remain. Design choices: 1. Where should the suggested hooks be in the remote repo? A branch, a non-branch ref, a config? I think that a branch is best - it is relatively well-understood and any hooks there can be version-controlled (and its history is independent of the other branches). 2. When and how should the local repo update its record of the remote's suggested hooks? If we go with storing the hooks in a branch of a remote side, this would automatically mean (with the default refspec) that it would be in refs/remotes//. This incurs network and hard disk cost even if the local repo does not want to use the suggested hooks, but I think that typically they would want to use it if they're going to do any work on the repo (they would either have to trust or inspect Makefiles etc. anyway, so they can do the same for the hooks), and even if they don't want to use the remote's hooks, they probably still want to know what the remote suggests. So using a branch provides a well-understood way of storing the hooks on the remote, transmitting it to the local repo, and storing the hooks in the local repo. So: what should be the default name of this branch? Presumably, "git clone" would need to be able to override this. 3. How should the local repo detect when the remote has updated its suggested hooks? I'm thinking when a certain local ref is updated. Right now it's hardcoded, but perhaps "git clone" could detect what "refs/heads/suggested-hooks" would correspond to, and then set it in a config accordingly. Other options include remembering what the remote's "refs/heads/suggested-hooks" used to be and always comparing it upon every "ls-refs" call, but I think that the local ref method is more straightforward. 4. Should the local repo try to notice if the hooks have been changed locally before overwriting upon autoupdate? This would be nice to have, but I don't know how practical it would be. In particular, I don't know if we can trust that "refs/remotes/origin/suggested-hooks" has not been clobbered. 5. Should we have a command that manually updates the hooks with what's in "refs/heads/suggested-hooks"? This is not in this patch set, but it sounds like a good idea. There are perhaps other points that I haven't thought of, of course. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.908.git.1616105016055.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/ Jonathan Tan (2): hook: move list of hooks clone,fetch: remote-suggested auto-updating hooks builtin/bugreport.c | 38 ++------------ builtin/clone.c | 10 ++++ builtin/fetch.c | 21 ++++++++ builtin/hook.c | 13 +++-- hook.c | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ hook.h | 5 ++ t/t5601-clone.sh | 36 ++++++++++++++ 7 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) -- 2.32.0.272.g935e593368-goog