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-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/glossary-content.txt3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index a969b3f..1befca9 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ hooks::
Hooks are customization scripts used by various git
commands. A handful of sample hooks are installed when
'git-init' is run, but all of them are disabled by
- default. To enable, they need to be made executable.
+ default. To enable, the `.sample` suffix has to be
+ removed from the filename by renaming.
Read linkgit:githooks[5] for more details about
each hook.
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 9b4a4f4..9afca75 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ to point at the new commit.
and potentially aborted, and allow for a post-notification after the
operation is done. The hook scripts are found in the
`$GIT_DIR/hooks/` directory, and are enabled by simply
- making them executable.
+ removing the `.sample` suffix from the filename. In earlier versions
+ of git you had to make them executable.
[[def_index]]index::
A collection of files with stat information, whose contents are stored