Since
f98f8cb (Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix, 2008-06-24) hooks
are not enabled by making them executable anymore, but by removing the
'.sample' suffix from the filename.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hooks are customization scripts used by various git
commands. A handful of sample hooks are installed when
'git-init' is run, but all of them are disabled by
- default. To enable, they need to be made executable.
+ default. To enable, the `.sample` suffix has to be
+ removed from the filename by renaming.
Read linkgit:githooks[5] for more details about
each hook.
and potentially aborted, and allow for a post-notification after the
operation is done. The hook scripts are found in the
`$GIT_DIR/hooks/` directory, and are enabled by simply
- making them executable.
+ removing the `.sample` suffix from the filename. In earlier versions
+ of git you had to make them executable.
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