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Documentation of post-receive hook

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CMChristoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2017, 22:40 UTC
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Hi,

I think the documentation of the post-receive hook is misleading. When reading it, it appears as though the post-receive hook is executed even when no commits are transferred by a git push because it isn't mentioned anywhere that this is necessary for its execution.

This can easily be fixed by changing
    This hook is invoked by 'git-receive-pack' on the remote repository,
    which happens when a 'git push' is done on a local repository.
to:
    This hook is invoked by 'git-receive-pack' on the remote repository,
    which happens when a 'git push' is done on a local repository and
    successfully transfers at least 1 commit.
Alternatively,
    This hook executes once for the receive operation.
can be changed to
    This hook executes once for the receive operation, but only if at least
    1 commit was successfully transferred.

Imho, the first option should be chosen as it informs the reader about this behavior at the first convenient opportunity.

-- 
Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com>
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