[MERGE][RFC] Enhanced hooks

[Aaron Bentley]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Remember that while centralized version control is "evil and wrong" :)
> it does allow a single administrator to set things up for a bunch of
> people.
> 
> Hooks often fall into this "everyone should follow X" rules.
> 
> My personal preference is to provide enough core support so that a
> 3rd-party can write a plugin which does the "trust settings in branches"
> for places that they want their users to trust. That way it doesn't have
> to be trusted everywhere, and hopefully we don't have to get too
> involved in hook ACLs and trust mechanisms.

I had imagined at some point we could extend the config mechanism so
that people could mark locations as trusted in locations.conf.  I'm not
sure whether that seems "too involved" to you.

But supporting an explicit central configuration might work even better
than supporting particular instances of branches.conf.

Aaron
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