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Re: Git-hooks pre-push script does not receive input on stdin

From
David Cowden <dcow90@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 23, 2014, 19:21 UTC
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You are correct, it was a misunderstanding on my part. I have suggested a patch to clarify the pre-push documentation in a separate thread.

Thanks for pointing that out!
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
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> On 2014-03-23 01.44, David Cowden wrote:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22585091/git-hooks-pre-push-script-does-not-receive-input-via-stdin
>>
>> Is this a bug in git?  Or am I just a shell noob?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> David
>
> I assume that you have the right version of Git ?
> You can look into the source of Git, to be more exact the test suite:
> t/t5571-pre-push-hook.sh
>
> When I play a little but with the script,
> (Replace the diff with test_cmp, add a line:
> diff --git a/t/t5571-pre-push-hook.sh b/t/t5571-pre-push-hook.sh
> index 6f9916a..01db2fb 100755
> --- a/t/t5571-pre-push-hook.sh
> +++ b/t/t5571-pre-push-hook.sh
> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ export COMMIT2
>  write_script "$HOOK" <<'EOF'
>  echo "$1" >actual
>  echo "$2" >>actual
> +echo hello >>actual
>  cat >>actual
>  EOF
> -------------
> and finally run it like this:
>
> debug=t verbose=t ./t5571-pre-push-hook.sh  2>&1 | less
> I get something like this:
>
> --- expected    2014-03-23 07:15:58.000000000 +0000
> +++ actual      2014-03-23 07:15:58.000000000 +0000
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
>  parent1
>  repo1
> +hello
>  refs/heads/master 139b20d8e6c5b496de61f033f642d0e3dbff528d refs/heads/foreign d79ce1670bdcb76e6d1da2ae095e890ccb326ae9
> not ok 4 - push with hook
> #
> #               git push parent1 master:foreign &&
> #               test_cmp expected actual
> #
> --------------------------------------------
> So the question is, if your push simply doesn't have anything to push,
> because everything is up to date?
> And in this case there is nothing on STDIN?
>
> If the problem still exists, feel free to post a script how to reproduce it
> here to the list, t5571 may be a source of inspiration.
>
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  1. David CowdenMar 23, 2014
  2. Torsten BögershausenMar 23, 2014
  3. David CowdenMar 23, 2014

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