Re: Update hook in Cygwin

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mar 8, 2006, 13:36 UTC
Message-ID: <440EDDE4.9070405@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <ad8ce5c20603080416g5ed6d77el@mail.gmail.com>

Niklas Höglund wrote:

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> Hi.
> 
> After creating a couple of repositories and pushing and cloning them,
> I get the following:
> 
> $ git push --all origin
> ...
> hooks/update: line 88: mail: command not found
> 
> This is in cygwin. I'm rather glad I don't have the mail command
> installed, as I don't want mails going anywhere.
> 
> The update hook contains the following comment:
> 
> # To enable this hook:
> # (1) change the recipient e-mail address
> # (2) make this file executable by "chmod +x update".
> 
> But my impression after a cursory look at it is that it would always
> call "mail" whenever it is run, and since all files are executable in
> Windows (AFAIK), it would always be run.

I was under the impression that the cygwin abstraction layer had some unixy permission thing on top of NTFS. Perhaps that's wrong. If you remove the hook it won't be called.

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