[PATCH] Have sample update hook not refuse deleting a branch through push.

From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Apr 16, 2007, 08:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20070416083135.7528.qmail@3626b961fc9db3.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070416083042.7415.qmail@5f69bf745847ea.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

source ref might be 0000...0000 to delete a branch through git-push, 'git <remote> push :<branch>'. The update hook should not decline this.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
---
 templates/hooks--update |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/templates/hooks--update b/templates/hooks--update
index 0dcb1ad..9d3795c 100644
--- a/templates/hooks--update
+++ b/templates/hooks--update
@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ if [ -z "$projectdesc" -o "$projectdesc" = "Unnamed repository; edit this file t
 fi
 
 # --- Check types
-newrev_type=$(git-cat-file -t $newrev)
+# if $newrev is 0000...0000, it's a commit to delete a branch
+if [ -z "${newrev##0*}" ]; then
+	newrev_type=commit
+else
+	newrev_type=$(git-cat-file -t $newrev)
+fi
 
 case "$refname","$newrev_type" in
 	refs/tags/*,commit)

-- 
1.5.1.1