On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Carles Pina <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 15 May 2011 19:04, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Carles,
>>
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Carles Pina <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>
>>> I would not do it, I expect the cs:updated to have the timestamp in
>>> the repository, so it's easy to clone, users can just browse the
>>> repository using the github interface and download the ready-to-use
>>> style, etc.
>>
>> Except that the github interface lists updated date-times for all
>> files by default already.
>>
>> And how do you respond to my previously noted problems? To repeat ...
>>
>> There are a variety of issues with forcing style authors to update the
>> cs:updated values manually:
>>
>> - it's tedious
>> - it's error prone (easy to forget to do, most basically)
>> - it mixes content and metadata (the metadata changes the sha1 value)
>>
>>> I would update the cs:updated when pushing with the pushing date, no?
>>
>> You mean like pre-commit or pre-push script?
>
> yes, automatically. I should check which hook exactly (I don't see a 
> pre-push).
>
>> That solves some of my issues above, but not all of them.
>
> It only leaves the last issue, right? Can you elaborate a bit more? (I
> don't see the problem of changing the sha1 in the pre-commit hook, if
> you mean that this is the problem). Maybe a git specific problem?
> (I've never changed files during the pre-commit).

I think it's specific to distributed version control in general.

In git, there are hooks for all manner of stuff (pre-commit,
post-receive, etc.), but none of them seem to involve modifying
source; they typically just fire off a process (say an email, run a
validation, etc.).

Bruce

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