Re: how-to get commit content with pre-receive hook ?

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2017, 18:48 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYByeaX0qhRhy0RDq5hvuyEhhDcgWS7GABi6Nr+k-Ekdw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX7xA92e5n=E8fdGHiBHaqzRjP_MVWsaE2v=DcVmCO2r0w@mail.gmail.com>

>>
>> But I don't know how to get the *content* of the file being submitted to run
>> my syntax check rules against it !
>>

>     git log -p <old>..<new>
>     git diff <old>..<new>

or in case of the tool requiring a full worktree

    mkdir /tmp/test
    GIT_WORKTREE=/tmp/test git checkout -f <new>
    and then perform the check on that full tree?