metastore fun

work around various bugs and issues to avoid each commit making a change that
would be seen by the next commit..

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pre-commit.d/10store-metadata b/pre-commit.d/10store-metadata
index 322a3ae..7958888 100755
--- a/pre-commit.d/10store-metadata
+++ b/pre-commit.d/10store-metadata
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 set -e
-metastore --save --mtime
-git add .metadata
+
+# ensure the file exists so that it will list its own metadata
+if [ ! -e .metadata ]; then
+	metastore --save
+	# the file could leak hidden dir contents..
+	chmod 600 .metadata
+fi
+
+# metastore doesn't produce the same output file for the same metadata
+# everytime, so avoid changing the file if nothing really changed.
+if [ ! -z "$(metastore --compare)" ]; then
+	metastore --save
+	git add .metadata
+fi