gear-2.2.0-alt1.noarch Sometimes, people forget to run gear-store-tags -a (which also implies -c). The run of gear-commit is a chance to give a warning about this. (Of course, the maintainer knows what to do right better, so this shouldn't be a strict check. In cases, when there are no such ref names in the maintainer's working Git repo, I suggest to remain silent.)
$ rpmquery --changelog git-core ... * Wed Jul 28 2010 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux> 1.7.2.1-alt1 - Updated to maint v1.7.2.1. - hooks/pre-commit: when invoked by gear-commit, ensure that .gear/tags/ is up to date. Please enable the pre-commit hook.