# [PATCH] post-merge: Add it's not executed if merge failed. 1 messages from 2008-05-05 to 2008-05-05. Participants: Jörg Sommer. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13384 ## Jörg Sommer, 2008-05-05 09:06 Subject: [PATCH] post-merge: Add it's not executed if merge failed. Message-ID: <1209978409-19396-1-git-send-email-joerg@alea.gnuu.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1209978409-19396-1-git-send-email-joerg%40alea.gnuu.de ``` Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer --- Documentation/hooks.txt | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/hooks.txt b/Documentation/hooks.txt index 44fbe58..43764e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/hooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/hooks.txt @@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ post-merge This hook is invoked by `git-merge`, which happens when a `git pull` is done on a local repository. The hook takes a single parameter, a status flag specifying whether or not the merge being done was a squash merge. -This hook cannot affect the outcome of `git-merge`. +This hook cannot affect the outcome of `git-merge` and is not executed, +if the merge failed due to conflicts. This hook can be used in conjunction with a corresponding pre-commit hook to save and restore any form of metadata associated with the working tree -- 1.5.5.1 ```