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Background processes in post-receive hook

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JPJames Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 2, 2011, 23:03 UTC
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Hi,

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? Sorry if I'm missing something obvious...

Thanks, James

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