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Junio C Hamano 6c430a647c Merge branch 'jx/proc-receive-hook'
"git receive-pack" that accepts requests by "git push" learned to
outsource most of the ref updates to the new "proc-receive" hook.

* jx/proc-receive-hook:
  doc: add documentation for the proc-receive hook
  transport: parse report options for tracking refs
  t5411: test updates of remote-tracking branches
  receive-pack: new config receive.procReceiveRefs
  doc: add document for capability report-status-v2
  New capability "report-status-v2" for git-push
  receive-pack: feed report options to post-receive
  receive-pack: add new proc-receive hook
  t5411: add basic test cases for proc-receive hook
  transport: not report a non-head push as a branch
2020-09-25 15:25:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3100fd5588 doc: clarify how exit status of post-checkout hook is used
Because the hook runs after the main checkout operation finishes, it
cannot affect what branch will be the current branch, what paths are
updated in the working tree, etc., which was described as "cannot
affect the outcome of 'checkout'".

However, the exit status of the hook is used as the exit status of
the 'checkout' command and is observable by anybody who spawned the
'checkout', which was missing from the documentation.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-27 14:45:11 -07:00
Jiang Xin d6edc189f6 doc: add documentation for the proc-receive hook
"git receive-pack" that accepts requests by "git push" learned to
outsource some of the ref updates to the new "proc-receive" hook.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-27 12:48:47 -07:00
Bojun Chen 6c18d03eb8 githooks.txt: use correct "reference-transaction" hook name
The "reference transaction" hook was introduced in commit 6754159767
(refs: implement reference transaction hook, 2020-06-19). The name of
the hook is declared as "reference-transaction" in "refs.c" and
testcases, but the name declared in "githooks.txt" is different.

Signed-off-by: Bojun Chen <bojun.cbj@alibaba-inc.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-24 13:53:58 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt 6754159767 refs: implement reference transaction hook
The low-level reference transactions used to update references are
currently completely opaque to the user. While certainly desirable in
most usecases, there are some which might want to hook into the
transaction to observe all queued reference updates as well as observing
the abortion or commit of a prepared transaction.

One such usecase would be to have a set of replicas of a given Git
repository, where we perform Git operations on all of the repositories
at once and expect the outcome to be the same in all of them. While
there exist hooks already for a certain subset of Git commands that
could be used to implement a voting mechanism for this, many others
currently don't have any mechanism for this.

The above scenario is the motivation for the new "reference-transaction"
hook that reaches directly into Git's reference transaction mechanism.
The hook receives as parameter the current state the transaction was
moved to ("prepared", "committed" or "aborted") and gets via its
standard input all queued reference updates. While the exit code gets
ignored in the "committed" and "aborted" states, a non-zero exit code in
the "prepared" state will cause the transaction to be aborted
prematurely.

Given the usecase described above, a voting mechanism can now be
implemented via this hook: as soon as it gets called, it will take all
of stdin and use it to cast a vote to a central service. When all
replicas of the repository agree, the hook will exit with zero,
otherwise it will abort the transaction by returning non-zero. The most
important upside is that this will catch _all_ commands writing
references at once, allowing to implement strong consistency for
reference updates via a single mechanism.

In order to test the impact on the case where we don't have any
"reference-transaction" hook installed in the repository, this commit
introduce two new performance tests for git-update-refs(1). Run against
an empty repository, it produces the following results:

  Test                         origin/master     HEAD
  --------------------------------------------------------------------
  1400.2: update-ref           2.70(2.10+0.71)   2.71(2.10+0.73) +0.4%
  1400.3: update-ref --stdin   0.21(0.09+0.11)   0.21(0.07+0.14) +0.0%

The performance test p1400.2 creates, updates and deletes a branch a
thousand times, thus averaging runtime of git-update-refs over 3000
invocations. p1400.3 instead calls `git-update-refs --stdin` three times
and queues a thousand creations, updates and deletes respectively.

As expected, p1400.3 consistently shows no noticeable impact, as for
each batch of updates there's a single call to access(3P) for the
negative hook lookup. On the other hand, for p1400.2, one can see an
impact caused by this patchset. But doing five runs of the performance
tests where each one was run with GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10, the overhead
ranged from -1.5% to +1.1%. These inconsistent performance numbers can
be explained by the overhead of spawning 3000 processes. This shows that
the overhead of assembling the hook path and executing access(3P) once
to check if it's there is mostly outweighed by the operating system's
overhead.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-19 10:46:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 5f2ec211f6 Merge branch 'bk/p4-pre-edit-changelist'
"git p4" learned four new hooks and also "--no-verify" option to
bypass them (and the existing "p4-pre-submit" hook).

* bk/p4-pre-edit-changelist:
  git-p4: add RCS keyword status message
  git-p4: add p4 submit hooks
  git-p4: restructure code in submit
  git-p4: add --no-verify option
  git-p4: add p4-pre-submit exit text
  git-p4: create new function run_git_hook
  git-p4: rewrite prompt to be Windows compatible
2020-04-22 13:42:43 -07:00
Ben Keene 38ecf75244 git-p4: add p4 submit hooks
The git command "commit" supports a number of hooks that support
changing the behavior of the commit command.  The git-p4.py program only
has one existing hook, "p4-pre-submit".  This command occurs early in
the process.  There are no hooks in the process flow for modifying
the P4 changelist text programmatically.

Adds 3 new hooks to git-p4.py to the submit option.

The new hooks are:
* p4-prepare-changelist - Execute this hook after the changelist file
  has been created. The hook will be executed even if the
  --prepare-p4-only option is set.  This hook ignores the --no-verify
  option in keeping with the existing behavior of git commit.

* p4-changelist - Execute this hook after the user has edited the
  changelist. Do not execute this hook if the user has selected the
  --prepare-p4-only option. This hook will honor the --no-verify,
  following the conventions of git commit.

* p4-post-changelist - Execute this hook after the P4 submission process
  has completed successfully. This hook takes no parameters and is
  executed regardless of the --no-verify option.  It's return value will
  not be checked.

The calls to the new hooks: p4-prepare-changelist, p4-changelist,
and p4-post-changelist should all be called inside the try-finally
block.

Signed-off-by: Ben Keene <seraphire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-14 08:58:53 -08:00
Ben Keene 4935c458c2 git-p4: add --no-verify option
Add new command line option --no-verify:

Add a new command line option "--no-verify" to the Submit command of
git-p4.py.  This option will function in the spirit of the existing
--no-verify command line option found in git commit. It will cause the
P4 Submit function to ignore the existing p4-pre-submit.

Change the execution of the existing trigger p4-pre-submit to honor the
--no-verify option. Before exiting on failure of this hook, display
text to the user explaining which hook has failed and the impact
of using the --no-verify option.

Change the call of the p4-pre-submit hook to use the new run_git_hook
function. This is in preparation of additional hooks to be added.

Signed-off-by: Ben Keene <seraphire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-11 12:04:05 -08:00
Kevin Willford dfaed02862 fsmonitor: update documentation for hook version and watchman hooks
A new config value for core.fsmonitorHookVersion was added to be able
to force the version of the fsmonitor hook.  Possible values are 1 or 2.
When this is not set the code will use a value of -1 and attempt to use
version 2 of the hook first and if that fails will attempt version 1.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <Kevin.Willford@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-23 15:10:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 91243b019d Merge branch 'en/filter-branch-deprecation'
Start discouraging the use of "git filter-branch".

* en/filter-branch-deprecation:
  t9902: use a non-deprecated command for testing
  Recommend git-filter-repo instead of git-filter-branch
  t6006: simplify, fix, and optimize empty message test
2019-09-30 13:19:29 +09:00
Elijah Newren 9df53c5de6 Recommend git-filter-repo instead of git-filter-branch
filter-branch suffers from a deluge of disguised dangers that disfigure
history rewrites (i.e. deviate from the deliberate changes).  Many of
these problems are unobtrusive and can easily go undiscovered until the
new repository is in use.  This can result in problems ranging from an
even messier history than what led folks to filter-branch in the first
place, to data loss or corruption.  These issues cannot be backward
compatibly fixed, so add a warning to both filter-branch and its manpage
recommending that another tool (such as filter-repo) be used instead.

Also, update other manpages that referenced filter-branch.  Several of
these needed updates even if we could continue recommending
filter-branch, either due to implying that something was unique to
filter-branch when it applied more generally to all history rewriting
tools (e.g. BFG, reposurgeon, fast-import, filter-repo), or because
something about filter-branch was used as an example despite other more
commonly known examples now existing.  Reword these sections to fix
these issues and to avoid recommending filter-branch.

Finally, remove the section explaining BFG Repo Cleaner as an
alternative to filter-branch.  I feel somewhat bad about this,
especially since I feel like I learned so much from BFG that I put to
good use in filter-repo (which is much more than I can say for
filter-branch), but keeping that section presented a few problems:
  * In order to recommend that people quit using filter-branch, we need
    to provide them a recomendation for something else to use that
    can handle all the same types of rewrites.  To my knowledge,
    filter-repo is the only such tool.  So it needs to be mentioned.
  * I don't want to give conflicting recommendations to users
  * If we recommend two tools, we shouldn't expect users to learn both
    and pick which one to use; we should explain which problems one
    can solve that the other can't or when one is much faster than
    the other.
  * BFG and filter-repo have similar performance
  * All filtering types that BFG can do, filter-repo can also do.  In
    fact, filter-repo comes with a reimplementation of BFG named
    bfg-ish which provides the same user-interface as BFG but with
    several bugfixes and new features that are hard to implement in
    BFG due to its technical underpinnings.
While I could still mention both tools, it seems like I would need to
provide some kind of comparison and I would ultimately just say that
filter-repo can do everything BFG can, so ultimately it seems that it
is just better to remove that section altogether.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-05 13:01:48 -07:00
Michael J Gruber bc40ce4de6 merge: --no-verify to bypass pre-merge-commit hook
Analogous to commit, introduce a '--no-verify' option which bypasses the
pre-merge-commit hook. The shorthand '-n' is taken by '--no-stat'
already.

[js: * reworded commit message to reflect current state of --no-stat flag
       and new hook name
     * fixed flag documentation to reflect new hook name
     * cleaned up trailing whitespace
     * squashed test changes from the original series' patch 4/4
     * modified tests to follow pattern from this series' patch 1/4
     * added a test case for --no-verify with non-executable hook
     * when testing that the merge hook did not run, make sure we
       actually have a merge to perform (by resetting the "side" branch
       to its original state).

]

Improved-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-07 12:37:33 -07:00
Michael J Gruber 6098817fd7 git-merge: honor pre-merge-commit hook
git-merge does not honor the pre-commit hook when doing automatic merge
commits, and for compatibility reasons this is going to stay.

Introduce a pre-merge-commit hook which is called for an automatic merge
commit just like pre-commit is called for a non-automatic merge commit
(or any other commit).

[js: * renamed hook from "pre-merge" to "pre-merge-commit"
     * only discard the index if the hook is actually present
     * expanded githooks documentation entry
     * clarified that hook should write messages to stderr
     * squashed test changes from the original series' patch 4/4
     * modified tests to follow new pattern from this series' patch 1/4
     * added a test case for non-executable merge hooks
     * added a test case for failed merges
     * when testing that the merge hook did not run, make sure we
       actually have a merge to perform (by resetting the "side" branch
       to its original state).
     * reworded commit message
]

Improved-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-07 12:37:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f496b064fc Merge branch 'nd/switch-and-restore'
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.

* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
  completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
  switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
  t2027: use test_must_be_empty
  Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
  help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
  doc: promote "git restore"
  user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
  completion: support restore
  t: add tests for restore
  restore: support --patch
  restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
  restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
  restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
  restore: add --worktree and --staged
  checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
  restore: disable overlay mode by default
  restore: make pathspec mandatory
  restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
  checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
  doc: promote "git switch"
  ...
2019-07-09 15:25:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 5795a75f9b Merge branch 'bp/post-index-change-hook'
A new hook "post-index-change" is called when the on-disk index
file changes, which can help e.g. a virtualized working tree
implementation.

* bp/post-index-change-hook:
  read-cache: add post-index-change hook
2019-04-25 16:41:11 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy d787d311db checkout: split part of it to new command 'switch'
"git checkout" doing too many things is a source of confusion for many
users (and it even bites old timers sometimes). To remedy that, the
command will be split into two new ones: switch and restore. The good
old "git checkout" command is still here and will be until all (or most
of users) are sick of it.

See the new man page for the final design of switch. The actual
implementation though is still pretty much the same as "git checkout"
and not completely aligned with the man page. Following patches will
adjust their behavior to match the man page.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:56:59 +09:00
Robert P. J. Day 3e14dd2c8e mention use of "hooks.allownonascii" in "man githooks"
The default pre-commit script checks the config variable
"hooks.allownonascii" to determine whether to allow non-ASCII file
names -- mention this in "man githooks", just as the section on
"update" mentions the use of "hooks.allowunannotated".

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-21 09:41:21 -08:00
Ben Peart 1956ecd0ab read-cache: add post-index-change hook
Add a post-index-change hook that is invoked after the index is written in
do_write_locked_index().

This hook is meant primarily for notification, and cannot affect
the outcome of git commands that trigger the index write.

The hook is passed a flag to indicate whether the working directory was
updated or not and a flag indicating if a skip-worktree bit could have
changed.  These flags enable the hook to optimize its response to the
index change notification.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-15 11:00:33 -08:00
Chen Bin 251c8c501f git-p4: add the p4-pre-submit hook
The `p4-pre-submit` hook is executed before git-p4 submits code.
If the hook exits with non-zero value, submit process not start.

Signed-off-by: Chen Bin <chenbin.sh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-01 13:37:18 -07:00
Andreas Heiduk 9dba84d81c doc: improve formatting in githooks.txt
Typeset commands and similar things with as `git foo` instead of
'git foo' or 'git-foo' and add linkgit to the commands which run
the hooks.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-06 18:38:43 +09:00
Junio C Hamano e87f9fc9d4 Merge branch 'es/worktree-checkout-hook'
"git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like
"git checkout" does, after the initial checkout.

* es/worktree-checkout-hook:
  worktree: invoke post-checkout hook (unless --no-checkout)
2017-12-27 11:16:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano e49ac11089 Merge branch 'jc/receive-pack-hook-doc'
Doc update.

* jc/receive-pack-hook-doc:
  hooks doc: clarify when receive-pack invokes its hooks
2017-12-13 13:28:55 -08:00
Eric Sunshine ade546be47 worktree: invoke post-checkout hook (unless --no-checkout)
git-clone and git-checkout both invoke the post-checkout hook following
a successful checkout, yet git-worktree neglects to do so even though it
too "checks out" the worktree. Fix this oversight.

Implementation note: The newly-created worktree may reference a branch
or be detached. In the latter case, a commit lookup is performed, though
the result is used only in a boolean sense to (a) determine if the
commit actually exists, and (b) assign either the branch name or commit
ID to HEAD. Since the post-commit hook needs to know the ID of the
checked-out commit, the lookup now needs to be done in all cases, rather
than only when detached. Consequently, a new boolean is needed to handle
(b) since the lookup result itself can no longer perform that role.

Reported-by: Matthew K Gumbel <matthew.k.gumbel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-07 14:02:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 7db2cbf4f1 hooks doc: clarify when receive-pack invokes its hooks
The text meant to say that receive-pack runs these hooks, and only
because receive-pack is not a command the end users use every day
(ever), as an explanation also meantioned that it is run in response
to 'git push', which is an end-user facing command readers hopefully
know about.

This unfortunately gave an incorrect impression that 'git push'
always result in the hook to run.  If the refs push wanted to update
all already had the desired value, these hooks are not run.

Explicitly mention "... and updates reference(s)" as a precondition
to avoid this confusion.

Helped-by: Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-24 11:20:29 +09:00
Junio C Hamano e05336bdda Merge branch 'bp/fsmonitor'
We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other
operations that need to see which paths have been modified.

* bp/fsmonitor:
  fsmonitor: preserve utf8 filenames in fsmonitor-watchman log
  fsmonitor: read entirety of watchman output
  fsmonitor: MINGW support for watchman integration
  fsmonitor: add a performance test
  fsmonitor: add a sample integration script for Watchman
  fsmonitor: add test cases for fsmonitor extension
  split-index: disable the fsmonitor extension when running the split index test
  fsmonitor: add a test tool to dump the index extension
  update-index: add fsmonitor support to update-index
  ls-files: Add support in ls-files to display the fsmonitor valid bit
  fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension.
  fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files.
  update-index: add a new --force-write-index option
  preload-index: add override to enable testing preload-index
  bswap: add 64 bit endianness helper get_be64
2017-11-21 14:07:50 +09:00
Ben Peart 780494b1f5 fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension.
This includes the core.fsmonitor setting, the fsmonitor integration hook,
and the fsmonitor index extension.

Also add documentation for the new fsmonitor options to ls-files and
update-index.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-01 17:23:05 +09:00
Junio C Hamano d4d262d19e Merge branch 'sb/merge-commit-msg-hook'
As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the
commit-msg hook, "git merge" that records a merge commit that
cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't.
* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook (2017-09-22) 1 commit
(merged to 'next' on 2017-09-25 at 096e0502a8)
+ Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook

Add documentation for a topic that has recently graduated to the
'master' branch.

* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook:
  Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook
2017-09-29 11:23:42 +09:00
Stefan Beller ce82eddf12 Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook
The commit-msg hook is invoked by both commit and merge now.

Reported-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-22 10:58:45 +09:00
Junio C Hamano 8e36002add Merge branch 'ma/up-to-date'
Message and doc updates.

* ma/up-to-date:
  treewide: correct several "up-to-date" to "up to date"
  Documentation/user-manual: update outdated example output
2017-09-10 17:08:22 +09:00
Martin Ågren 7560f547e6 treewide: correct several "up-to-date" to "up to date"
Follow the Oxford style, which says to use "up-to-date" before the noun,
but "up to date" after it. Don't change plumbing (specifically
send-pack.c, but transport.c (git push) also has the same string).

This was produced by grepping for "up-to-date" and "up to date". It
turned out we only had to edit in one direction, removing the hyphens.

Fix a typo in Documentation/git-diff-index.txt while we're there.

Reported-by: Jeffrey Manian <jeffrey.manian@gmail.com>
Reported-by: STEVEN WHITE <stevencharleswhitevoices@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-23 12:17:22 -07:00
Kaartic Sivaraam 0ef1a4e32a hook: add a simple first example
Add a simple example that replaces an outdated example
that was removed. This ensures that there's at the least
a simple example that illustrates what could be done
using the hook just by enabling it.

Also, update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-12 13:21:07 -07:00
Kaartic Sivaraam b22a307946 hook: cleanup script
Prepare the 'preare-commit-msg' sample script for
upcoming changes. Preparation includes removal of
an example that has outlived it's purpose. The example
is the one that comments the "Conflicts:" part of a
merge commit message. It isn't relevant anymore as
it's done by default since 261f315b ("merge & sequencer:
turn "Conflicts:" hint into a comment", 2014-08-28).

Further update the relevant comments from the sample script
and update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-12 13:20:40 -07:00
Jonathan Tan 6489660b4b send-email: support validate hook
Currently, send-email has support for rudimentary e-mail validation.
Allow the user to add support for more validation by providing a
sendemail-validate hook.

Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-16 11:13:00 +09:00
Junio C Hamano c8ddd2aa11 Merge branch 'sr/hooks-cwd-doc'
* sr/hooks-cwd-doc:
  githooks.txt: clarify push hooks are always executed in $GIT_DIR
2017-05-04 16:26:46 +09:00
Simon Ruderich 501d3cd7b8 githooks.txt: clarify push hooks are always executed in $GIT_DIR
Listing the specific hooks might feel verbose but without it the
reader is left to wonder which hooks are triggered during the
push. Something which is not immediately obvious when only trying
to find out where the hook is executed.

Signed-off-by: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-01 10:56:15 +09:00
Jeff King eaeed077a6 receive-pack: document user-visible quarantine effects
Commit 722ff7f87 (receive-pack: quarantine objects until
pre-receive accepts, 2016-10-03) changed the underlying
details of how we take in objects. This is mostly
transparent to the user, but there are a few things they
might notice. Let's document them.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-16 18:15:17 -07:00
Stefan Beller 77a9745d19 push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options
The environment variable GIT_PUSH_OPTION_COUNT is set to the number of
push options sent, and GIT_PUSH_OPTION_{0,1,..} is set to the transmitted
option.

The code is not executed as the push options are set to NULL, nor is the
new capability advertised.

There was some discussion back and forth how to present these push options
to the user as there are some ways to do it:

Keep all options in one environment variable
============================================
+ easiest way to implement in Git
- This would make things hard to parse correctly in the hook.

Put the options in files instead,
filenames are in GIT_PUSH_OPTION_FILES
======================================
+ After a discussion about environment variables and shells, we may not
  want to put user data into an environment variable (see [1] for example).
+ We could transmit binaries, i.e. we're not bound to C strings as
  we are when using environment variables to the user.
+ Maybe easier to parse than constructing environment variable names
  GIT_PUSH_OPTION_{0,1,..} yourself
- cleanup of the temporary files is hard to do reliably
- we have race conditions with multiple clients pushing, hence we'd need
  to use mkstemp. That's not too bad, but still.

Use environment variables, but restrict to key/value pairs
==========================================================
(When the user pushes a push option `foo=bar`, we'd
GIT_PUSH_OPTION_foo=bar)
+ very easy to parse for a simple model of push options
- it's not sufficient for more elaborate models, e.g.
  it doesn't allow doubles (e.g. cc=reviewer@email)

Present the options in different environment variables
======================================================
(This is implemented)
* harder to parse as a user, but we have a sample hook for that.
- doesn't allow binary files
+ allows the same option twice, i.e. is not restrictive about
  options, except for binary files.
+ doesn't clutter a remote directory with (possibly stale)
  temporary files

As we first want to focus on getting simple strings to work
reliably, we go with the last option for now. If we want to
do transmission of binaries later, we can just attach a
'side-channel', e.g. "any push option that contains a '\0' is
put into a file instead of the environment variable and we'd
have new GIT_PUSH_OPTION_FILES, GIT_PUSH_OPTION_FILENAME_{0,1,..}
environment variables".

[1] 'Shellshock' https://lwn.net/Articles/614218/

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-14 15:50:17 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 867ad08a26 hooks: allow customizing where the hook directory is
Change the hardcoded lookup for .git/hooks/* to optionally lookup in
$(git config core.hooksPath)/* instead.

This is essentially a more intrusive version of the git-init ability to
specify hooks on init time via init templates.

The difference between that facility and this feature is that this can
be set up after the fact via e.g. ~/.gitconfig or /etc/gitconfig to
apply for all your personal repositories, or all repositories on the
system.

I plan on using this on a centralized Git server where users can create
arbitrary repositories under /gitroot, but I'd like to manage all the
hooks that should be run centrally via a unified dispatch mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-04 16:25:13 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason de0824ed8f githooks.txt: minor improvements to the grammar & phrasing
Change:

 * Sentences that needed "the" or "a" to either add those or change them
   so they don't need them.

 * The little tangent about "You can use this to do X (if your project
   wants to do X)" can just be shortened to "if you want to do X".

 * s/parameter/parameters/ when the plural made more sense.

Most of this goes all the way back to the initial introduction of
hooks.txt in 6d35cc76 (Document hooks., 2005-09-02).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-04 16:23:36 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason bf7d977f8c githooks.txt: amend dangerous advice about 'update' hook ACL
Any ACL you implement via an 'update' hook isn't actual access control
if the user has login access to the machine running git, because they
can trivially just build their own version of Git which doesn't run the
hook.

Change the documentation to take this dangerous edge case into account,
and remove the mention of the advice originating on the mailing list,
the users reading this don't care where the idea came up.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-04 16:22:48 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 49fa52fd00 githooks.txt: improve the intro section
Change the documentation so that:

 * We don't talk about "little scripts". Hooks can be as big as you
   want, and don't have to be scripts, just call them "programs".

 * We note that we change the working directory before a hook is called,
   nothing documented this explicitly, but the current behavior is
   predictable. It helps a lot to know what directory these hooks will
   be executed from.

 * We don't make claims about the example hooks which may not be true
   depending on the configuration of 'init.templateDir'. Clarify that
   we're talking about the default settings of git-init in those cases,
   and move some of this documentation into git-init's documentation
   about the default templates.

 * We briefly note in the intro that hooks can get their arguments in
   various different ways, and that how exactly is described below for
   each hook.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-04 16:22:23 -07:00
Matthieu Moy ad52148a7d Documentation: fix broken linkgit to git-config
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-03-21 13:31:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0855331941 receive-pack: support push-to-checkout hook
When receive.denyCurrentBranch is set to updateInstead, a push that
tries to update the branch that is currently checked out is accepted
only when the index and the working tree exactly matches the
currently checked out commit, in which case the index and the
working tree are updated to match the pushed commit.  Otherwise the
push is refused.

This hook can be used to customize this "push-to-deploy" logic.  The
hook receives the commit with which the tip of the current branch is
going to be updated, and can decide what kind of local changes are
acceptable and how to update the index and the working tree to match
the updated tip of the current branch.

For example, the hook can simply run `git read-tree -u -m HEAD "$1"`
in order to emulate 'git fetch' that is run in the reverse direction
with `git push`, as the two-tree form of `read-tree -u -m` is
essentially the same as `git checkout` that switches branches while
keeping the local changes in the working tree that do not interfere
with the difference between the branches.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-08 14:28:43 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann f745acb028 Documentation: typofixes
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:

 - Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
 - Spell Linux as Capitalized;
 - Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-04 13:14:44 -08:00
Øystein Walle 5fe8f49b6d Documentation: fix typos in man pages
Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-05 14:35:45 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann d5fa1f1a69 The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function.
When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 11:08:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f7b1ad870c Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maint
* maint-1.8.1:
  bundle: Add colons to list headings in "verify"
  bundle: Fix "verify" output if history is complete
  Documentation: filter-branch env-filter example
  git-filter-branch.txt: clarify ident variables usage
  git-compat-util.h: Provide missing netdb.h definitions
  describe: Document --match pattern format
  Documentation/githooks: Explain pre-rebase parameters
  update-index: list supported idx versions and their features
  diff-options: unconfuse description of --color
  read-cache.c: use INDEX_FORMAT_{LB,UB} in verify_hdr()
  index-format.txt: mention of v4 is missing in some places
2013-03-25 13:46:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 8ddd9c18f3 Merge branch 'wk/doc-pre-rebase' into maint-1.8.1
The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented.

* wk/doc-pre-rebase:
  Documentation/githooks: Explain pre-rebase parameters
2013-03-25 13:45:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 06d67b8766 Sync with 1.8.1.5 2013-03-01 13:17:18 -08:00
Andrew Wong 5e2485846d Documentation/githooks: Fix linkgit
Signed-off-by: Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-01 10:19:22 -08:00