[Gnu-arch-users] Arch hooks

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

I'm looking at the hook function in GNU Arch and have a couple of 
comments/questions:

 0) In say a "tla import" or "tla commit", when does the hook file
    get run, at the start, during or at the end of the process?

 1) Should the current tla command be terminated if the hook 
    function returns a non-zero error code? For instance, I have
    a Python script which checks C code against a number of 
    formatting requirements. What I would like to do is run this
    script againsy all C files in the project before a commit. If
    any formatting violations are found (ie the Python script 
    terminates with a non zero return code) I would like the 
    commit to be aborted so the errors can be fixed before the
    commit is attempted again.

 2) Is it possible to have a per project hook file so that hooks 
    actually become part of the project? This would allow different 
    projects to do different things in the project specific hook.
    If this per project hook becomes part of the project then things
    like the above Python script can be shipped with the project so
    that someone else working on the project can run the same hooks
    when they commit, without having to modify the hook file in 
    their home directory.

Does this functionality exist already and I haven't found it yet? Does
anyone else think this is a good idea? 

Regards,
Erik

PS : I have been using GNU Arch for about 2 days and I really like it
     so far. It is already a huge improvement on CVS which I have been
     using for some time, but have never been happy with. I have also 
     attempted to use Aegis but found that it was very difficult to 
     use on projects which use autoconf/automake/libtool.
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