Re: New developer papercut - Makefile references INSTALL

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2022-02-09 22:32:59 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> 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.

> Why not? We probably wouldn't want to do synchronously as part of the receive
> hook, but if we have a policy that INSTALL is not to be updated by humans, but
> updated automatically whenever its sources are modified, I'd be OK with
> auto-committing that.

What happens when the INSTALL build fails (which is quite possible,
I believe, even if a plain html build works)?

I don't really want any post-commit or post-receive hooks doing
anything interesting to the tree. I think the odds for trouble
are significantly greater than any value we'd get out of it.

I'm in favor of unifying README and README.git along the lines
we discussed above. I think that going further than that
will be a lot of trouble for very little gain; in fact no gain,
because I do not buy any of the arguments that have been
made about why changing the INSTALL setup would be beneficial.
If we adjust the README contents to be less confusing about that,
we're done.

regards, tom lane