Re: How to use git attributes to configure server-side checks?

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 21, 2011, 20:02 UTC
Message-ID: <CAG+J_DyxGW8MSYaRj2-fepFDeQDTsuy1S0VDgsu7u2CY+ZCZDQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E7A3BDE.3040301@alum.mit.edu>

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

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> I was thinking of using git attributes to configure a server-side
> "update" hook that does some basic sanity checking before accepting a
> push.  I thought I could do something like
>
> ~/.gitattributes:
>    *.c whitespace
>
> ~/crappy-vendor-code/.gitattributes:
>    # This code doesn't conform to our standards; disable check:
>    *.c -whitespace
>
> This would allow fine-grained specification of which checks are applied
> to which files, and ensure that the hook configuration is kept
> synchronized with changes to the content.

I do this by running diff --check. I'm actually doing it via Jenkins + Gerrit, but it's done against a bare repo, so the idea should work just the same via a git hook. Here's the code I run in Jenkins in case it's at all helpful - https://gist.github.com/6b230f9bd8d4d2fd9895

j.