ciabot for git version 3.5 is released
<p>I shipped an updated version of the <a href="http://www.catb.org/esr/ciabot/">ciabot hook scripts for git</a> to the git maintainers this morning.</p>
<p>The cool new thing in this release is that the script no longer needs to be modified for installation as a hook.  You can install one copy where any number of git repositories can see it; when it&#8217;s run it will collect the information it needs either by autoconfiguring or by looking at variables set in each project&#8217;s .git/config file.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Once I started looking at the code&#8230;I found a way to make it completely self-configuring in the normal case.  So I&#8217;ve shipped 3.6.  This will be helpful for forge sites like Savannah, because it means they&#8217;ll be able to install one standard git hook that Just Works.</p>
