update comment

This is not only called from post-update in all configurations. Also, the
comment was innaccurate about what the post-update hook is passed.
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Joey Hess 2008-01-28 17:33:22 -05:00
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@ -424,14 +424,15 @@ sub rcs_recentchanges ($) { #{{{
sub rcs_notify () { #{{{
# Send notification mail to subscribed users.
#
# This is typically run as the post-update hook, though some setups
# may run it from the post-commit hook too.
#
# In usual Git usage, hooks/update script is presumed to send
# notification mails (see git-receive-pack(1)). But we prefer
# hooks/post-update to support IkiWiki commits coming from a
# cloned repository (through command line) because post-update
# is called _after_ each ref in repository is updated (update
# hook is called _before_ the repository is updated). Since
# post-update hook does not accept command line arguments, we
# don't have an $ENV variable in this function.
# hook is called _before_ the repository is updated).
#
# Here, we rely on a simple fact: we can extract all parts of the
# notification content by parsing the "HEAD" commit (which also