git/templates/hooks--update.sample, branch v1.6.3

hook/update: example of how to prevent branch creation

2009-04-18T04:26:11Z

Since git doesn't provide a receive.denyBranchCreation or similar, here is an example of how to be sure users cannot create branches remotely by pushing a new reference. This setup has been proven useful to prevent creation of spurious branches because of users having their remote.origin.push set to HEAD, when they use `git push` while being on a local topic branch of theirs instead of the proper one. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Modify description file to say what this file is

2009-03-04T08:56:52Z

A lot of people see this message for the first time on the gitweb interface, where there is no clue as to what 'this file' means. Signed-off-by: John Tapsell Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix

2008-06-25T02:06:22Z

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. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano