Bug: Git invokes hooks from wrong directory.

From: Gabriel Nützi <gnuetzi@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 27, 2021, 07:23 UTC
Message-ID: <e173a3c0-5ca9-4c0e-9a1b-ef5f6aa72340@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <03b67357-4d9a-ea66-ad72-f01bb25aa54c@gmail.com>

Dear Community

The following MWE in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67273420/why-does-git-execute-hooks-from-an-other-repository/67276138#67276138

shows a bug that Git executes the hooks in `/tmp/A` instead of `/tmp/Githooks`.

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|# Make simple repo git init "/tmp/A" && cd "/tmp/A" || exit 1
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|# Make hook to demonstrate the problem
   mkdir -p ".git/hooks" &&
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|echo "echo 'EXECUTED!!!'" >.git/hooks/reference-transaction &&
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|  chmod +x ".git/hooks/reference-transaction" &&
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|  git clone -c core.hooksPath=".git/hooks" --template= 
"https://github.com/gabyx/Githooks.git" /tmp/Githooks|
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Would be nice to know, if this is indeed a bug and should be fixed?

If somebody points me to the corresponding source code, I could dive in. Thanks a lot.

BR Gabriel Nützi