# Inaccurate documentation for core.hooksPath? 2 messages from 2024-05-23 to 2024-05-29. Participants: Mark Boyd - Q2AAAA, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/61538 ## Mark Boyd - Q2AAAA, 2024-05-23 19:36 Subject: Inaccurate documentation for core.hooksPath? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CABBKgan9hLme%2B9WTNNVrZXxqO4-VRGiC3RLQgfKFUHAy3QZvDA%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hello, This documentation says that git only looks for hooks in the configured core.hooksPath: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/config/core.txt#L499-L504 However, in my testing, git will run both hooks located in the core.hooksPath directory and in the local git repo hooks directory (.git/hooks by default). Observation of this behavior is documented in https://github.com/cloud-gov/caulking/issues/37. Is the behavior I'm seeing the actually expected behavior of git? Or are we somehow relying on an edge-case or buggy behavior? Thanks, Mark ``` ## Jeff King, 2024-05-29 10:45 Subject: Re: Inaccurate documentation for core.hooksPath? Message-ID: <20240529104515.GG1098944@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20240529104515.GG1098944%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 03:36:49PM -0400, Mark Boyd - Q2AAAA wrote: > This documentation says that git only looks for hooks in the > configured core.hooksPath: > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/config/core.txt#L499-L504 > > However, in my testing, git will run both hooks located in the > core.hooksPath directory and in the local git repo hooks directory > (.git/hooks by default). Observation of this behavior is documented in > https://github.com/cloud-gov/caulking/issues/37. > > Is the behavior I'm seeing the actually expected behavior of git? Or > are we somehow relying on an edge-case or buggy behavior? Can you show us a more complete example that runs both hooks? I didn't see in that issue where it was clear that both were being run. When I try to make a minimal example, like this: -- >8 -- git init -q repo cd repo echo 'echo >&2 running in-repo hook' >.git/hooks/pre-commit chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit git commit --allow-empty -m "should have run in-repo hook" git config core.hookspath $PWD git commit --allow-empty -m "should have run no hook" echo 'echo >&2 running external hook' >pre-commit chmod +x pre-commit git commit --allow-empty -m "should have run external hook" -- >8 -- I get the expected output: running in-repo hook [main (root-commit) 22a8fd5] should have run in-repo hook [main ebc5524] should have run no hook running external hook [main 5ca6b75] should have run external hook Looking at the code, everything is as I'd expect. Certainly there could be a bug where it finds the wrong path, but I don't see how it could ever run _two_ hooks. -Peff ```