From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:22:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Background processes in post-receive hook
Message-ID: <BANLkTin4-fMhi_5H1oZ+gPB99stj5GRjVA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinrEt6DkwhknpDZ0iV9PR+7bBd3DAaPRJOgNFTG@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:33 AM, James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

interestingly, the double fork trick doesn't work either...

  ( ( long-running-command & ) )

What Junio said may be the only alternative...