[linux-elitists] Perhaps bonghits will fix my Git hooks

[Don Marti]

I'm thinking about keeping my Git hooks the same on
all copies of a small repository. Here's what I have
so far.

1. Move the actual content of the hook into the Makefile.
(so that you can do "make pre-commit")

2. Rewrite the hook to just invoke make.

3. Add a "hooks" target to install the new simpler
versions of the hooks.

So I get something like...

hooks : .git/hooks/pre-commit

.git/hooks/% : Makefile
echo "#!/bin/sh" > $@
echo "make `basename $@`" >> $@
chmod 755 $@

pre-commit :
git diff-index --check HEAD


Now is when I find out that this is a terrible idea,
and why...