Re: [PATCH] add a 'pre-push' hook

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 19, 2008, 19:00 UTC
Message-ID: <d411cc4a0808191200o39837fd0ka2530aed870e06b0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080819185804.GA17943@coredump.intra.peff.net>

If the patch is acceptable, I will update the githooks doc with more information, but we would like this so that you could add a hook that runs your automated tests before a push would go through.

Scott

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:55:27AM -0700, Scott Chacon wrote:
>
>> This commit adds support for a 'pre-push' hook that can be called before
>> a `git push` command.
>>
>> It takes no arguments currently, but if the .git/hooks/pre-push script
>> exists and is executable, it will be called before the 'git push' command
>> and will stop the push process if it does not exit with a 0 status.
>>
>> This hook can be overridden by passing in the --no-verify or -n option to
>> git push.  Documentation and tests have been updated to reflect the change.
>
> Would you care to describe what this is useful for (either in
> documentation, to help potential users, or at least in the commit log,
> so we know there is a need that is not otherwise fulfilled)?
>
> -Peff
>