Setting up hooks for automatic tag-generation using ctags

SOURCE: tpope's blog

• Say this directory is ~/git_template. Run the following commands:

git config --global init.templatedir '~/git_template'

Make sure the hook files at ./hooks/ are executable.

• Perform git init inside an existing repository to copy the hooks at ./hooks/ into repo/.git/hooks/.

• Now any new repositories we create or clone will be immediately indexed with Ctags (at repo/.git/tags) and set up to re-index every time we check out, commit, merge, or rebase. Basically, we’ll never have to manually run Ctags on a Git repository again.

• If vim-fugitive is installed, repo/.git/tags is already added into the tags option; thus, we don't even have to explicitly add the location of the tags file in Vim!