From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:35:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Background processes in post-receive hook
Message-ID: <7v8vvsgoj8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinrEt6DkwhknpDZ0iV9PR+7bBd3DAaPRJOgNFTG@mail.gmail.com>

James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a post-receive hook (bash script) that launches several background
> processes and exits immediately.  I do that so I don't have to wait for the
> background processes to finish every time I push to the repository, but Git
> seems to wait for them to finish anyways, even though the post-receive hook
> itself already exited.  Is there any way to stop Git from waiting and let the
> push finish immediately?

An easy way to do that is to run whatever lengthy process you do not want
to wait for using

	echo "that command" | at now

in the hook ;-).