[Gnu-arch-users] Re: How to support arch on systems with a small PATH_MAX

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (James Blackwell) writes:
>> Sounds like a pre-commit hook to me (or at most, perhaps some sort of
>> rules-file stored in {arch}).
>
> I figure a pre-commit hook won't be aware which files are adds and
> renames without being pretty smart.

If you've got a changeset, it's completely trivial to find out; I don't
know if pre-commit hooks get a pre-prepared changeset, but it's easy
enough to _make_ one using `tla changes' (you don't really need the
changeset itself, the output of the `changes' command would be enough).

-Miles
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