[PATCH] contrib/hooks: add sample post-receive hook using agefile

[john at keeping.me.uk (John Keeping)]

Jason, did you decide not to apply this or was it just lost in the
noise?

[Thread starts here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.cgit/2258
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 05:12:41PM +0100, Ferry Huberts wrote:
> On 23/12/14 16:48, John Keeping wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 04:15:15PM +0100, Ferry Huberts wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 23/12/14 15:40, John Keeping wrote:
> >>> +agefile="$(git rev-parse --git-dir)"/info/web/last-modified
> >>
> >> use $GIT_DIR here instead of rev-parse
> >
> > githooks(5) doesn't guarantee that GIT_DIR will be set and the fact that
> > it currently is seems to be an artifact of how old versions of Git work
> > ([0]).
> >
> > I'd prefer to stick with rev-parse, which is what the example hooks in
> > git.git use.
> >
> > [0] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/136276
> >
> 
> Ok with me.
> I did check the man pages and they seem to say that GITDIR is set.
> Well, whatever :-)
> 
> >>> +
> >>> +mkdir -p "$(dirname "$agefile")" &&
> >>> +git for-each-ref \
> >>> +	--sort=-authordate --count=1 \
> >>> +	--format='%(authordate:iso8601)' \
> >>> +	>"$agefile"