Reacting to new commits in a poll-mirror

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Feb 2, 2010, 22:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20100202220234.GA17107@lapse.rw.madduck.net>

Folks,

I am trying to set up Patchwork-Git integration on host A for a project whose Git repo is on host B. I thought I could use a mirror (git clone --mirror) on A and regularly fetch from B, but I cannot find a way (hook) to make Git on A react to new commits it fetched from B.

I can probably hack something up, e.g. store refs before a fetch and then iterate the refs between the stored refs and the HEAD, but this seems exceedingly hackish and I'd much rather have this information from git-fetch (like git-push calls post-receive).

Is this at all possible? Would it be possible? Where would this be done?

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