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Sergey Vlasov, Andy Parkins and Alex Riesen all pointed out that it is possible for a single invocation of receive-pack to be given more refs than the OS might allow us to pass as command line parameters to a single hook invocation. We don't want to break these up into multiple invocations (like xargs might do) as that makes it impossible for the pre-receive hook to verify multiple related ref updates occur at the same time, and it makes it harder for post-receive to send out a single batch notification. Instead we pass the reference data on a pipe connected to the hook's stdin, supplying one ref per line to the hook. This way a single hook invocation can obtain an infinite amount of ref data, without bumping into any operating system limits. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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git-receive-pack(1)
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===================
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NAME
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----
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git-receive-pack - Receive what is pushed into the repository
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git-receive-pack' <directory>
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Invoked by 'git-send-pack' and updates the repository with the
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information fed from the remote end.
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This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user.
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The UI for the protocol is on the 'git-send-pack' side, and the
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program pair is meant to be used to push updates to remote
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repository. For pull operations, see 'git-fetch-pack'.
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The command allows for creation and fast forwarding of sha1 refs
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(heads/tags) on the remote end (strictly speaking, it is the
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local end receive-pack runs, but to the user who is sitting at
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the send-pack end, it is updating the remote. Confused?)
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There are other real-world examples of using update and
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post-update hooks found in the Documentation/howto directory.
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git-receive-pack honours the receive.denyNonFastForwards config
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option, which tells it if updates to a ref should be denied if they
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are not fast-forwards.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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<directory>::
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The repository to sync into.
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pre-receive Hook
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----------------
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Before any ref is updated, if $GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive file exists
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and is executable, it will be invoked once with no parameters. The
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standard input of the hook will be one line per ref to be updated:
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sha1-old SP sha1-new SP refname LF
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The refname value is relative to $GIT_DIR; e.g. for the master
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head this is "refs/heads/master". The two sha1 values before
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each refname are the object names for the refname before and after
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the update. Refs to be created will have sha1-old equal to 0{40},
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while refs to be deleted will have sha1-new equal to 0{40}, otherwise
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sha1-old and sha1-new should be valid objects in the repository.
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This hook is called before any refname is updated and before any
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fast-forward checks are performed.
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If the pre-receive hook exits with a non-zero exit status no updates
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will be performed, and the update, post-receive and post-update
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hooks will not be invoked either. This can be useful to quickly
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bail out if the update is not to be supported.
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update Hook
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Before each ref is updated, if $GIT_DIR/hooks/update file exists
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and is executable, it is invoked once per ref, with three parameters:
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$GIT_DIR/hooks/update refname sha1-old sha1-new
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The refname parameter is relative to $GIT_DIR; e.g. for the master
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head this is "refs/heads/master". The two sha1 arguments are
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the object names for the refname before and after the update.
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Note that the hook is called before the refname is updated,
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so either sha1-old is 0{40} (meaning there is no such ref yet),
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or it should match what is recorded in refname.
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The hook should exit with non-zero status if it wants to disallow
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updating the named ref. Otherwise it should exit with zero.
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Successful execution (a zero exit status) of this hook does not
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ensure the ref will actully be updated, it is only a prerequisite.
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As such it is not a good idea to send notices (e.g. email) from
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this hook. Consider using the post-receive hook instead.
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post-receive Hook
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-----------------
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After all refs were updated (or attempted to be updated), if any
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ref update was successful, and if $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive
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file exists and is executable, it will be invoke once with no
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parameters. The standard input of the hook will be one line
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for each successfully updated ref:
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sha1-old SP sha1-new SP refname LF
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The refname value is relative to $GIT_DIR; e.g. for the master
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head this is "refs/heads/master". The two sha1 values before
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each refname are the object names for the refname before and after
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the update. Refs that were created will have sha1-old equal to
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0{40}, while refs that were deleted will have sha1-new equal to
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0{40}, otherwise sha1-old and sha1-new should be valid objects in
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the repository.
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Using this hook, it is easy to generate mails describing the updates
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to the repository. This example script sends one mail message per
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ref listing the commits pushed to the repository:
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#!/bin/sh
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# mail out commit update information.
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while read oval nval ref
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do
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if expr "$oval" : '0*$' >/dev/null
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then
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echo "Created a new ref, with the following commits:"
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git-rev-list --pretty "$nval"
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else
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echo "New commits:"
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git-rev-list --pretty "$nval" "^$oval"
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fi |
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mail -s "Changes to ref $ref" commit-list@mydomain
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done
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exit 0
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The exit code from this hook invocation is ignored, however a
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non-zero exit code will generate an error message.
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Note that it is possible for refname to not have sha1-new when this
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hook runs. This can easily occur if another user modifies the ref
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after it was updated by receive-pack, but before the hook was able
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to evaluate it. It is recommended that hooks rely on sha1-new
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rather than the current value of refname.
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post-update Hook
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----------------
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After all other processing, if at least one ref was updated, and
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if $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-update file exists and is executable, then
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post-update will called with the list of refs that have been updated.
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This can be used to implement any repository wide cleanup tasks.
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The exit code from this hook invocation is ignored; the only thing
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left for git-receive-pack to do at that point is to exit itself
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anyway.
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This hook can be used, for example, to run "git-update-server-info"
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if the repository is packed and is served via a dumb transport.
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#!/bin/sh
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exec git-update-server-info
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SEE ALSO
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--------
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gitlink:git-send-pack[1]
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Author
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------
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Documentation
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--------------
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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