Re: New developer papercut - Makefile references INSTALL

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:53 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-01-21 17:25:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Perhaps this could be finessed by making updating of INSTALL
> > the responsibility of some post-commit hook on the git server.
> > Not sure that we want to go there, though. In any case, that
> > approach would negate your point about seeing the results.
>
> It would. I guess it'd still be better than the situation today, but...

post-commit hooks don't run on the git server, they run locally on
your machine. There is a "post receive" hook that runs on the git
server, but we definitely don't want that one to fabricate new commits
I think.

And it certainly cannot *modify* the commit that came in in flight, as
that would change the hash, and basically break the whole integrity of
the commit chain.

We could certainly have a cronjob somewhere that ran to check that
they were in sync and would auto-generate a patch if they weren't, for
a committer to review, but I'm not sure how much that would help?

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