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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
W. Trevor King
0414acc365 Documentation/githooks: Explain pre-rebase parameters
Descriptions borrowed from templates/hooks--pre-rebase.sample.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-24 00:13:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e34c7e2b51 Merge branch 'ta/doc-no-small-caps'
Update documentation to change "GIT" which was a poor-man's small
caps to "Git".  The latter was the intended spelling.

Also change "git" spelled in all-lowercase to "Git" when it refers
to the system as the whole or the concept it embodies, as opposed to
the command the end users would type.

* ta/doc-no-small-caps:
  Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT
  Documentation: describe the "repository" in repository-layout
  Documentation: add a description for 'gitfile' to glossary
  Documentation: do not use undefined terms git-dir and git-file
  Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
  Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
2013-02-05 16:13:32 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
Aaron Schrab
ec55559f93 push: Add support for pre-push hooks
Add support for a pre-push hook which can be used to determine if the
set of refs to be pushed is suitable for the target repository.  The
hook is run with two arguments specifying the name and location of the
destination repository.

Information about what is to be pushed is provided by sending lines of
the following form to the hook's standard input:

  <local ref> SP <local sha1> SP <remote ref> SP <remote sha1> LF

If the hook exits with a non-zero status, the push will be aborted.

This will allow the script to determine if the push is acceptable based
on the target repository and branch(es), the commits which are to be
pushed, and even the source branches in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-18 11:13:22 -08:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
Thomas Rast
920a5d436b Documentation/githooks: post-rewrite-copy-notes never existed
The documentation for the post-rewrite hook contains a paragraph from
its early development, where the automatic notes copying facilities
were not part of the series and thus this had to be a hook.  Later
versions of the series implemented notes copying as a core feature.

Thus mentioning post-rewrite-copy-notes was never correct.  As the
other hooks do not have a "there is no default hook, but..." sentence
unless they ship a sample hook in either templates or contrib, we
simply remove the whole paragraph.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-10 09:09:02 -08:00
Thomas Rast
6956f858f6 notes: implement helpers needed for note copying during rewrite
Implement helper functions to load the rewriting config, and to
actually copy the notes.  Also document the config.

Secondly, also implement an undocumented --for-rewrite=<cmd> option to
'git notes copy' which is used like --stdin, but also puts the
configuration for <cmd> into effect.  It will be needed to support the
copying in git-rebase.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-12 21:55:39 -08:00
Thomas Rast
c0fc686911 Documentation: document post-rewrite hook
This defines the behaviour of the post-rewrite hook support, which
will be implemented in the following patches.

We deliberately do not document how often the hook will be invoked per
rewriting command, but the interface is designed to keep that at
"once".  This would currently not matter too much, since both rebase
and filter-branch are shellscripts and spawn many processes anyway.
However, when a fast sequencer in C is implemented, it will be
beneficial to only have to run the hook once.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-12 21:55:39 -08:00
Thomas Rast
0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.

The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.

Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
Junio C Hamano
4cb51a65a4 Sync with 1.6.5.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-10 16:20:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1456b043fc Remove post-upload-hook
This hook runs after "git fetch" in the repository the objects are
fetched from as the user who fetched, and has security implications.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-10 12:21:40 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
a75d7b5409 Use 'fast-forward' all over the place
It's a compound word.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-24 23:50:28 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
39c448c19d remove logical typo in documentation of sample update hook
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-14 02:23:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
df01e7c5ee Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-pull: do not mention --quiet and --verbose twice
  githooks.txt: put hooks into subsections
2009-09-07 15:45:48 -07:00
Bert Wesarg
6d71c1dca4 githooks.txt: put hooks into subsections
All hooks are currently in its own section. Which may confuse users,
because the section name serves as the hook file name and sections are
all caps for man pages. Putting them into a new HOOKS section and each
hook into a subsection keeps the case to lower case.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-07 15:45:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
11cae066b2 upload-pack: feed "kind [clone|fetch]" to post-upload-pack hook
A request to clone the repository does not give any "have" but asks for
all the refs we offer with "want".  When a request does not ask to clone
the repository fully, but asks to fetch some refs into an empty
repository, it will not give any "have" but its "want" won't ask for all
the refs we offer.

If we suppose (and I would say this is a rather big if) that it makes
sense to distinguish these two cases, a hook cannot reliably do this
alone.  The hook can detect lack of "have" and bunch of "want", but there
is no direct way to tell if the other end asked for all refs we offered,
or merely most of them.

Between the time we talked with the other end and the time the hook got
called, we may have acquired more refs or lost some refs in the repository
by concurrent operations.  Given that we plan to introduce selective
advertisement of refs with a protocol extension, it would become even more
difficult for hooks to guess between these two cases.

This adds "kind [clone|fetch]" to hook's input, as a stable interface to
allow the hooks to tell these cases apart.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-28 22:39:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a8563ec851 upload-pack: add a trigger for post-upload-pack hook
After upload-pack successfully finishes its operation, post-upload-pack
hook can be called for logging purposes.

The hook is passed various pieces of information, one per line, from its
standard input.  Currently the following items can be fed to the hook, but
more types of information may be added in the future:

    want SHA-1::
        40-byte hexadecimal object name the client asked to include in the
        resulting pack.  Can occur one or more times in the input.

    have SHA-1::
        40-byte hexadecimal object name the client asked to exclude from
        the resulting pack, claiming to have them already.  Can occur zero
        or more times in the input.

    time float::
        Number of seconds spent for creating the packfile.

    size decimal::
        Size of the resulting packfile in bytes.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-28 22:39:17 -07:00
Jens Lehmann
24c11552cb githooks documentation: post-checkout hook is also called after clone
The documentation of the post-checkout hook just talks
about git-checkout. But recently git-clone was changed to
call it too, unless the -no-checkout (-n) option is used.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22 12:29:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
58f37f3c07 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update draft release notes for 1.6.1.1
  builtin-fsck: fix off by one head count
  t5540: clarify that http-push does not handle packed-refs on the remote
  http-push: when making directories, have a trailing slash in the path name
  http-push: fix off-by-path_len
  Documentation: let asciidoc align related options
  githooks.txt: add missing word
  builtin-commit.c: do not remove COMMIT_EDITMSG
2009-01-17 23:04:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
78f111e12d Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint
* maint-1.6.0:
  builtin-fsck: fix off by one head count
  Documentation: let asciidoc align related options
  githooks.txt: add missing word
  builtin-commit.c: do not remove COMMIT_EDITMSG
2009-01-17 22:39:49 -08:00
Stephan Beyer
9968696015 githooks.txt: add missing word
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17 17:57:41 -08:00
Jon Loeliger
323b9db839 Fix Documentation typos surrounding the word 'handful'.
Some instances replaced by "handful of", others use
the word "few", a couple get a slight rewording.

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-13 00:18:53 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
1df2713249 githooks documentation: add a note about the +x mode
In a freshly initialized repo it is only necessary to rename the .sample
hooks, but when using older repos (initialized with older git init)
enabled the +x mode is still necessary - docuement this.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-17 13:37:14 -08:00
Nanako Shiraishi
00e5d48a9a docs: describe pre-rebase hook
Documentation/git-rebase.txt talks about pre-rebase hook, but it
appears that Documentation/git-hooks.txt does not have corresponding
entry for it.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-06 01:17:05 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
5d6b3a9ef8 Documentation: remove '\' in front of short options
... because they show up in the man and html outputs.

This escaping is only needed for double dashes to be compatible with
older asciidoc versions;  see commit e1ccf53 ([PATCH] Escape asciidoc's
built-in em-dash replacement, 2005-09-12).

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-01 08:18:46 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
ba020ef5eb manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.

Using

	doit () {
	  perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
	}
	for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
	        merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
	do
	  doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i"
	done
	git diff

.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:40 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
b1889c36d8 Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using
"git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is
not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to
refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no
escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.)

This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command,
program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can
be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are
made to use the dashless form.

The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens
and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched
versions are identical.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f98f8cbac0 Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix
We used to mark hooks we ship as samples by making them unexecutable, but
some filesystems cannot tell what is executable and what is not.

This makes it much more explicit.  The hooks are suffixed with .sample
(but now are made executable), so enabling it is still one step operation
(instead of "chmod +x $hook", you would do "mv $hook.sample $hook") but
now they won't get accidentally enabled on systems without executable bit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-24 19:06:22 -07:00
Christian Couder
9e1f0a85c6 documentation: move git(7) to git(1)
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user
level, it seems better to move it to man section 1.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 11:18:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
29182f7da4 Merge branch 'cc/hooks-doc'
* cc/hooks-doc:
  Documentation: rename "hooks.txt" to "githooks.txt" and make it a man page
2008-05-14 13:34:23 -07:00
Christian Couder
a5af0e2c55 Documentation: rename "hooks.txt" to "githooks.txt" and make it a man page
Also now "gitcli(5)" becomes "gitcli(7)".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-04 17:41:34 -07:00
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