Re: Unable to coax hooks into working

From: Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah.foster@pelagicore.com>
Date: Apr 27, 2010, 09:08 UTC
Message-ID: <EA3DE148-CDC8-4FA3-8C97-74379E91B495@pelagicore.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BD6A5BC.3010708@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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> Jeremiah Foster venit, vidit, dixit 27.04.2010 10:33:
>> 
>> On Apr 26, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Jacob Helwig wrote:
>>> 
>>> You want one of the receive, or update hooks, if you're putting
>>> this in a central place, where it needs to be triggered by someone
>>> doing a push in to the repo.
>> 
>> Thanks Jacob. I'd just like to confirm that I am, in fact, using the
>> update hook. I logged into the server holding the git repo, cd'd to
> 
> That used to be different ;) update hook on the server is good.
> 
>> the .git/hooks/ directory. Moved the update.sample to update. Changed
>> the code to something trivial that would echo back to the client for
>> testing. I checked permissions, checked ownership, ran the code as
>> the git repo owner. I logged out, did a trivial change in the client
>> repo, ran git commit -a -m "foo" and expected that the trivial update
>> script to run on the server would produce output to the client. This
> 
> But this is the same problem backwards. Again: Please try to understand
> what commit does, and what push does, in terms of where (local repo vs.
> server) a change happens:

I think I do. The commit pushes the change onto the index. The index is local. It gets pushed to the remote server when I do a git push. I should have been more explicit - I am in fact pushing the code to the remote server in such a manner that git-receive-pack is run. My understanding from the documentation is that this is the trigger which update gets called. Yet no information from that update script is produced in the logs or in the client.

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> 
> As long as you only commit in your local repo nothing changes on the
> server (remote repo), so no hook is triggered there.
> 
>> never occurred. I further tested the client hooks which also did not
>> run.
> 
> Which ones?
> 
> committing locally triggers post-commit on your local repo.

These did not work.

> pushing to remote triggers post-update (and others) on the remote
> server's repo.

These also did not work. In short, the triggers that the documentation defines for both client and remote hooks fail to produce information in the client. Any idea on why?

Jeremiah