Re: post-receive hook

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: May 30, 2008, 09:06 UTC
Message-ID: <200805301106.33992.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0805300108140.4014@asgard.lang.hm>

On Friday 30 May 2008, david@lang.hm wrote:

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> I'm trying to setup a post-receive hook to do a checkout -f when I push to 
> a public repo (it's a web based tool and I want the executables to be 
> updated with a push)
> 
> unfortunantly if I just add git checkout -f to the post-receive hooks it 
> checks the files out in the .git directory.
> 
> if I do a cd .. ; git checkout -f I get an error message complaining that 
> it's not in a git repository, but if I manually cd to that directory and 
> do a checkout it works.
> 
> what am I missing here?

I'm guessing that the post-receive hook is invoked with "GIT_DIR=.", which goes bad the moment you chdir anywhere. I have this in my own update hook script:

if [ "$GIT_DIR" = "." ]; then
	GIT_DIR=`pwd`
fi

If you do this before the "cd .. ; git checkout -f", you might have better luck.

Have fun! :)

...Johan

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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net