# What is the working directory for post-update hook? 4 messages from 2006-02-05 to 2006-02-05. Participants: Alan Chandler, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3244 ## Alan Chandler, 2006-02-05 09:06 Subject: What is the working directory for post-update hook? Message-ID: <200602050906.52016.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200602050906.52016.alan%40chandlerfamily.org.uk ``` The document root of my website has a git repository under it (in the standard .git subdirectory) and want a post update hook to checkout the contents (so the web server sees it!) I will be pushing to it via ssh. Does this mean that the post-update hook with be run with a working directory of the web site's document root? or something relative (such as GIT_DIR) so that I don't have to do a specific cd to an absolute path. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. ``` ## Alan Chandler, 2006-02-05 09:37 Subject: Re: What is the working directory for post-update hook? Message-ID: <200602050937.12885.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200602050937.12885.alan%40chandlerfamily.org.uk In-Reply-To: <200602050906.52016.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> ``` On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:06, Alan Chandler wrote: > The document root of my website has a git repository under it (in the > standard .git subdirectory) and want a post update hook to checkout the > contents (so the web server sees it!) > > I will be pushing to it via ssh. > > Does this mean that the post-update hook with be run with a working > directory of the web site's document root? or something relative (such as > GIT_DIR) so that I don't have to do a specific cd to an absolute path. I found it out, by getting the post update hook to e-mail me the value:-) its in the repository (ie document_root/.git) -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2006-02-05 09:41 Subject: Re: What is the working directory for post-update hook? Message-ID: <7vd5i2kuqi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vd5i2kuqi.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net In-Reply-To: <200602050906.52016.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> ``` Alan Chandler writes: > The document root of my website has a git repository under it (in the > standard .git subdirectory) and want a post update hook to checkout the > contents (so the web server sees it!) > > I will be pushing to it via ssh. > > Does this mean that the post-update hook with be run with a working directory > of the web site's document root? or something relative (such as GIT_DIR) so > that I don't have to do a specific cd to an absolute path. The current implementation happens to chdir to GIT_DIR and sets GIT_DIR=. in the environment, so if you have something like this: /var/www/myproject/ /var/www/myproject/.git/ /var/www/myproject/.git/HEAD /var/www/myproject/.git/... /var/www/myproject/README Then $(pwd) would be /var/www/myproject/.git/. Your hook would probably be able to do "cd .." to get to the project top. However, there is no guarantee for future implementations. ``` ## Alan Chandler, 2006-02-05 10:58 Subject: Re: What is the working directory for post-update hook? Message-ID: <200602051058.26570.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200602051058.26570.alan%40chandlerfamily.org.uk In-Reply-To: <7vd5i2kuqi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> ``` On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:41, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Alan Chandler writes: > > The document root of my website has a git repository under it (in the > > standard .git subdirectory) and want a post update hook to checkout the > > contents (so the web server sees it!) > > > > I will be pushing to it via ssh. > > > > Does this mean that the post-update hook with be run with a working > > directory of the web site's document root? or something relative (such as > > GIT_DIR) so that I don't have to do a specific cd to an absolute path. > > The current implementation happens to chdir to GIT_DIR and sets > GIT_DIR=. in the environment, so if you have something like > this: > > /var/www/myproject/ > /var/www/myproject/.git/ > /var/www/myproject/.git/HEAD > /var/www/myproject/.git/... > /var/www/myproject/README > > Then $(pwd) would be /var/www/myproject/.git/. Your hook would > probably be able to do "cd .." to get to the project top. > I did get it to work doing a cd .. - although you also have to unset GIT_DIR, because its is literally "." and not the directory that was "." at the time of setting, so a cd .. ; checkout -f then fails with an invalid repository. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. ```