Install sample hooks

A template mechanism to populate newly initialized repository
with default set of files is introduced.  Use it to ship example
hooks that can be used for update and post update checks, as
Josef Weidendorfer suggests.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

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diff --git a/templates/hooks--update b/templates/hooks--update
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index 000000000..540ade0d5
--- /dev/null
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# An example hook script to mail out commit update information.
+#
+# To enable this hook:
+# (1) change the recipient e-mail address
+# (2) make this file executable by "chmod +x update".
+#
+
+recipient="commit-list@mydomain.xz"
+
+if expr "$2" : '0*$' >/dev/null
+then
+	echo "Created a new ref, with the following commits:"
+	git-rev-list --pretty "$2"
+else
+	echo "New commits:"
+	git-rev-list --pretty "$3" "^$2"
+fi |
+mail -s "Changes to ref $1" "$recipient"
+exit 0