Re: [PATCH] Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix

[Peter Baumann <waste.manager@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 07:09:03PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> We used to mark hooks we ship as samples by making them unexecutable, but
> some filesystems cannot tell what is executable and what is not.
> 
> This makes it much more explicit.  The hooks are suffixed with .sample
> (but now are made executable), so enabling it is still one step operation
> (instead of "chmod +x $hook", you would do "mv $hook.sample $hook") but
> now they won't get accidentally enabled on systems without executable bit.
> 

Wouldn't it be better to name the hooks $hook.deactivated so its obvious
to anybody that they are not executed? Just my 2 cents.

-Peter
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