[Paraview-developers] [vtk-developers] New git commit hooks

[Berk Geveci]

I am sure Brad will chime in but here is the reasoning behind not
having these hooks:

Consider the case where you have a branch with 10 commits. Say the 2nd
one has a tab in it. When you try to push this, your whole push would
get rejected. Now you have to figure out how to fix the 2nd commt
while keeping all the commits after that the same. Note that you
cannot simply fix the problem by making a new commit or a revert
commit because the hook checks every single commit for problems. Of
course, fixing the 2nd commit is doable by rewriting history but it is
not the most straightforward thing to do.

So we decided that commit checks would for fatal or close to fatal
problems and that the other problems would be caught on the dashboard
so that they can be fixed by later commits.

(I disagree with the trailing space check btw. I think it is too
aggressive. There are many developers that use editors that are not
very good at not leaving trailing spaces. Forcing everyone to change
is to invasive)

-berk



On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Mark Olesen <Mark.Olesen at faurecia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 10:34 +1000, Andrew Maclean wrote:
>> I agree with you, I  think that there also should be a commit check
>> for tabs,  otherwise layout gets really messy.
>
> What about checking/stripping trailing whitespace as well?
> This is something else that tends to look messy and result in lots of
> noisy commits.
>
> /mark
>
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