git-clone and post-checkout hook
I suppose you could make a custom installation – rename the hooks in …/share/git-core/templates/hooks to remove the .sample suffix. You could also make a template directory full of symlinks to a hooks directory inside the repository, (e.g. post-checkout -> ../../hooks/post-checkout). Then if the cloned repo contained that particular hook, it’d get executed. You’re right, though, … Read more