Re: post-receive-email hook with custom_showrev

From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2013, 14:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+mfgz3XsVB9hk+0rG0VnJQL9P9oD-wrrTX35xpsF2kM9GqJMQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <512DB8D6.9010109@alum.mit.edu>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

Show 10 quoted lines

> If I type that into my .git/config file then type "git config
> hooks.showrev" I get "bad config file line 7 in .git/config" due to the
> "\$".  I think the quoting in the comment in post-receive-email is
> written as if it would be passed via the command line to "git config"; i.e.,
>
>     git config hooks.showrev "t=%s; printf 'http://.../?id=%%s' \$t;
> echo;echo; git show -C \$t; echo"
>
> Granted, the docs don't make that clear.  See git-config(1) for the
> details of the config file syntax.

Thanks a lot that did the trick! I imagined it'd be some quoting issue.

Cheers

Adam