[issue778] hooks not run in hgwebdir, but works in global hgrc

[James Mills]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> This is a security feature.
> 
> Mercurial doesn't trust most settings in hgrc files that are not owned
> by the current user. If it did, Alice could add an extension to
> .hg/hgrc that would steal Bob's data when Bob ran "hg log" in her
> directory. Similar problems are possible with hooks as well.

How then do we get a hook working ?

I have apache running as the 'www' user
with my hg repos in /data/hg/public/

My hook is in /data/hg/scripts/
and is owned by root:root

I want this hook to be run everytime
someone pushes to the repo.

cheers
James

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