githooks - git hooks : is there a clone hook?

Question

We want to store some meta-information about the commit in an external database. During a clone or a checkout, this database should be referred and we copy the meta information to a file in the repo which is cloned. The database is required rather than just using a file is for the sake of indexing and searches etc ...

I thought if there is a clone hook, we could trigger this. I couldn't find the clone hooks in the sample in .git/hooks. is there one? is post-checkout hook the only possibility at client side?

Answer 1

ok, one way to do this is to use the clone --template option.

Specify the location where the client side hooks will be stored as value to the --template switch. The hooks are copied to the clone, and the post-checkout hook is fired immediately!