[Arm-netbook] git commits on kicad

[lkcl luke]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:43:18 +0000, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> phil, hi,
>>
>> small favour to ask you: i'm beginning to get quite annoyed at kicad,
>> it's amazing i tolerated it this long. stupid thing inserts timestamps
>> into every file, along with a revision number.  do you have time (or
>> does anyone else for that matter) to write some git precommit and
>> post-update hooks which strip the bloody things out and re-constitute
>> something random or even, optionally, useful?
>>
>> you hit "save" in kicad and the stupid stupid thing drops a timestamp
>> into every damn file.  oh, and, of course, they have a built-in
>> "archive" system, don't they.
>
> That sounds like the sort of thing that should be handled in the client
> somehow, like stripping CR from DOS based git clients, to keep the
> repo clean.
>
> I have a feeling that I'm not the git guru you think I am though -- I
> don't even know if there's a hook for that (knowing git, probably is
> though).

 ah i meant, i'll write the git hook but i don't grok where/how to put
them anywhere.