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Re: What is the working directory for post-update hook?

From
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Date
Feb 5, 2006, 09:37 UTC
Message-ID
<200602050937.12885.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
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<200602050906.52016.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:06, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> The document root of my website has a git repository under it (in the
> standard .git subdirectory) and want a post update hook to checkout the
> contents (so the web server sees it!)
>
> I will be pushing to it via ssh.
>
> Does this mean that the post-update hook with be run with a working
> directory of the web site's document root? or something relative (such as
> GIT_DIR) so that I don't have to do a specific cd to an absolute path.
I found it out, by getting the post update hook to e-mail me the value:-)
its in the repository (ie document_root/.git)
-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.
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