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Re: [RFC] Run hooks with a cleaner environment

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Dec 7, 2005, 00:39 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> GIT_DIR is set to the repository that got the push,

That is done by receive-pack; it chdir()s into the repository and does its thing, and the hooks are called from there; I'd expect cwd to be the repository ('.git'), GIT_DIR to be dot ('.').

I think doing the "unset GIT_DIR" to be the first thing if you want to access some other repository is documented somewhere but if not please send a patch to document it.

As to file descriptors, I think duping the output to original stderr might make sense, but I do not know what breaks, so interested parties may want to test it out and submit a tested patch for inclusion.

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