hook: introduce the receive-report hook

When running 'git-receive-pack(1)', there is no way for the server to
intercept and modify the status report before it is sent back to the
client. Servers with custom logic may need to transform or gate the
report based on the outcome of external logic post reference updates.

This is specially needed for our usecase at GitLab where we have custom
MVCC logic on top of Git which creates a new version for each push
operation. The new version is only committed when certain external
operations post reference transaction succeed. So reporting the correct
message based on the outcome of these operations is important.

We cannot use any of the existing hooks as:

  - The pre-receive hook runs too early, as we haven't updated
    references at that point yet and we need to have the full view of
    all resulting updates (both objects and references).

  - The update hook is too inefficient as it runs once per reference,
    and we cannot trivially determine the last update.

  - The reference-transaction hook cannot be used by us because we care
    about the phase where it was committed already. And while the hook
    fires in that phase, it does not allow the caller to modify the
    result in any capacity.

  - The post-receive and post-update hooks cannot be used as they run
    too late, at the point where we have already reported success to the
    client.

Introduce a new 'receive-report' hook. The hook receives the complete
pkt-line encoded status report on standard input, after all ref updates
have been applied to the repository by execute_commands() but before the
report is sent to the client. See linkgit:gitprotocol-pack[5] details on
the protocol structure.

The hook's stdout fully replaces the report sent to the client.
receive-pack fully buffers the hook's stdout before acting on the exit
status, so the exit code is known before the client receives anything.
This gives two distinct behaviors depending on exit status:

- Exit 0: the hook's stdout is used as the report. The hook can
  rewrite 'ok' lines to 'ng' lines to signal per-ref rejection to the
  client while receive-pack itself exits cleanly. The client marks
  rejected refs as '[remote rejected]' and exits with a non-zero
  status if any ref is 'ng'.

- Non-zero exit: the hook's stdout is discarded, receive-pack modifies
  all references to be rejected with a 'receive-report hook failed'
  error.

In both cases, any output the hook writes to standard error is
forwarded to the client over the sideband channel and appears as
'remote:' lines on the client terminal. Writing to stderr alone does
not affect the push outcome.

Note that in either failure mode, ref updates already applied by
execute_commands() are not rolled back. The hook can cause the client
to perceive the push as failed, but cannot undo server-side changes.

This hook does not use the config-based hook infrastructure, which
supports running multiple scripts per hook event. This hook is a
bidirectional filter: it receives the report on stdin and writes a
modified version to stdout. Running multiple such scripts sequentially
would require piping the output of one into the input of the next,
which the current hook infrastructure does not support. A single-script
design is therefore a natural fit, and is consistent with how
'proc-receive' is structured for the same reason.

Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Karthik Nayak 2026-08-26 12:19:39 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 063bb0a987
commit 16861b5365
5 changed files with 310 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -243,6 +243,15 @@ requests. It handles refs whose names match the patterns defined by
`receive.procReceiveRefs` and executes the actual ref updates. See
linkgit:githooks[5] for the full protocol description.

RECEIVE-REPORT HOOK
-------------------
This hook is invoked by 'git-receive-pack' after all the ref updates
have been applied but before the report is sent to the client. The hook
receives the complete report in pkt-line format on stdin and its stdout
replaces the report sent to the client. Allowing the hook to rewrite
the outcomes or abort the push completely. See linkgit:githooks[5] for
the full protocol description.

QUARANTINE ENVIRONMENT
----------------------


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@ -527,6 +527,49 @@ The exit status of the hook is ignored for any state except for the
status will cause the transaction to be aborted. The hook will not be
called with "aborted" state in that case.

receive-report
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This hook is invoked by linkgit:git-receive-pack[1] when it reacts to
`git push` and updates references in its repository. It executes on
the repository once after all refs have been updated and after all
accepted ref changes are applied to the repository, but before the
pkt-line encoded status report is sent back to the client.

The hook receives the complete pkt-line encoded status report on
standard input, see linkgit:gitprotocol-pack[5] for details on the
structure. The hook's standard output entirely replaces the report
that is sent to the client. The hook must write a valid pkt-line
encoded report in the same format it received. The hook's stdout is
fully buffered by `receive-pack` before any data is sent to the client,
so the hook's exit status is known before the client receives anything.

There are two distinct ways the hook can affect the push outcome:

* To reject individual ref updates while keeping `receive-pack` alive,
rewrite the corresponding `ok <refname>` lines to
`ng <refname> <reason>` lines in the output and exit with status 0.
The client will then mark those specific refs as rejected while
treating any `ok` refs as successful. The push as a whole is
considered failed if any ref is `ng`, and `git push` will exit with
a non-zero status on the client side.

* To abort the entire push unconditionally, exit with a non-zero
status. In this case the hook's stdout is discarded, `receive-pack`
modifies all references to be rejected with a 'receive-report hook
failed' error.

Any output written to standard error is forwarded to the client over
the sideband channel and will appear as `remote:` lines on clients
using 'git-push(1)', regardless of the hook's exit status. Writing to
standard error alone does not affect the push outcome.

Note that by the time this hook runs, all ref updates have already been
applied to the repository. Neither a non-zero exit nor rewriting refs
to `ng` rolls back any ref changes that were already committed
server-side. The hook can cause the client to perceive the push as
failed, but cannot undo the server-side updates.

push-to-checkout
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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@ -1004,6 +1004,41 @@ static int run_update_hook(struct command *cmd)
return code;
}

static int run_receive_report_hook(struct strbuf *report)
{
struct child_process proc = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
struct async sideband_async;
int sideband_async_started = 0;
int saved_stderr = -1;
struct strbuf out = STRBUF_INIT;
const char *hook_path;
int ret;

hook_path = find_hook(the_repository, "receive-report");
if (!hook_path)
return 0;

strvec_push(&proc.args, hook_path);
proc.trace2_hook_name = "receive-report";

prepare_sideband_async(&sideband_async, &saved_stderr,
&sideband_async_started);

sigchain_push(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
ret = pipe_command(&proc, report->buf, report->len, &out,
report->len, NULL, 0);
sigchain_pop(SIGPIPE);

finish_sideband_async(&sideband_async, saved_stderr,
sideband_async_started);

if (!ret)
strbuf_swap(&out, report);

strbuf_release(&out);
return ret;
}

static struct command *find_command_by_refname(struct command *list,
const char *refname)
{
@ -2534,9 +2569,12 @@ static void update_shallow_info(struct command *commands,
* Generate the response to be sent to the client invoking 'git-receive-pack(1)'.
* For v2 protocol, set `add_reports` to true, which will also add additional
* report per reference update.
* If `ref_error` is set, then all references will be rejected with the given
* error message.
*/
static void generate_response(struct strbuf *buf, struct command *commands,
const char *unpack_status, bool add_reports)
const char *unpack_status, bool add_reports,
const char *ref_error)
{
struct command *cmd;

@ -2550,10 +2588,13 @@ static void generate_response(struct strbuf *buf, struct command *commands,
if (cmd->error_string)
packet_buf_write(buf, "ng %s %s\n",
cmd->ref_name, cmd->error_string);
else if (ref_error)
packet_buf_write(buf, "ng %s %s\n",
cmd->ref_name, ref_error);
else
packet_buf_write(buf, "ok %s\n", cmd->ref_name);

if (!add_reports || cmd->error_string)
if (!add_reports || cmd->error_string || ref_error)
continue;

for (report = cmd->report; report; report = report->next) {
@ -2581,7 +2622,13 @@ static void report(struct command *commands, const char *unpack_status)
{
struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;

generate_response(&buf, commands, unpack_status, false);
generate_response(&buf, commands, unpack_status, false, NULL);

if (run_receive_report_hook(&buf)) {
strbuf_reset(&buf);
generate_response(&buf, commands, unpack_status, false,
"receive-report hook failed");
}

if (use_sideband)
send_sideband(1, 1, buf.buf, buf.len, use_sideband);
@ -2594,7 +2641,13 @@ static void report_v2(struct command *commands, const char *unpack_status)
{
struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;

generate_response(&buf, commands, unpack_status, true);
generate_response(&buf, commands, unpack_status, true, NULL);

if (run_receive_report_hook(&buf)) {
strbuf_reset(&buf);
generate_response(&buf, commands, unpack_status, true,
"receive-report hook failed");
}

if (use_sideband)
send_sideband(1, 1, buf.buf, buf.len, use_sideband);

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@ -652,6 +652,7 @@ integration_tests = [
't5409-colorize-remote-messages.sh',
't5410-receive-pack.sh',
't5411-proc-receive-hook.sh',
't5412-receive-report-hook.sh',
't5500-fetch-pack.sh',
't5501-fetch-push-alternates.sh',
't5502-quickfetch.sh',

200
t/t5412-receive-report-hook.sh Executable file
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@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
#!/bin/sh

test_description='test receive-report hook'

GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=main
export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME

. ./test-lib.sh

. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t5411/common-functions.sh

URL_PREFIX="\.\."

test_expect_success "setup workbench" '
git init workbench &&
create_commits_in workbench A B
'

test_expect_success "no report hook, push succeeds" '
test_when_finished "rm -rf upstream" &&
test_when_finished "git -C workbench remote remove origin" &&
git init --bare upstream &&

git -C workbench remote add origin ../upstream &&
git -C workbench push origin $A:refs/heads/main &&
git -C workbench push origin $B:refs/heads/main >out 2>&1 &&

make_user_friendly_and_stable_output <out >actual &&
cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
To ../upstream
<COMMIT-A>..<COMMIT-B> <COMMIT-B> -> main
EOF
test_cmp expect actual
'

test_expect_success "passthrough does not alter report" '
test_when_finished "rm -rf upstream" &&
test_when_finished "git -C workbench remote remove origin" &&
git init --bare upstream &&

test_hook -C upstream --setup receive-report <<-\EOF &&
cat
EOF

git -C workbench remote add origin ../upstream &&
git -C workbench push origin $A:refs/heads/main &&
git -C workbench push origin $B:refs/heads/main >out 2>&1 &&

make_user_friendly_and_stable_output <out >actual &&
cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
To ../upstream
<COMMIT-A>..<COMMIT-B> <COMMIT-B> -> main
EOF
test_cmp expect actual
'

test_expect_success "non-zero exit reports as hook failed" '
test_when_finished "rm -rf upstream" &&
test_when_finished "git -C workbench remote remove origin" &&

git init --bare upstream &&
git -C workbench remote add origin ../upstream &&
git -C workbench push origin $A:refs/heads/main &&

test_hook -C upstream --setup receive-report <<-\EOF &&
exit 1
EOF

test_must_fail git -C workbench push origin $B:refs/heads/main >out 2>&1 &&
make_user_friendly_and_stable_output <out >actual &&
cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
To ../upstream
! [remote rejected] <COMMIT-B> -> main (receive-report hook failed)
EOF
test_cmp expect actual
'

test_expect_success "hook is invoked and receives report on stdin" '
test_when_finished "rm -rf upstream" &&
test_when_finished "git -C workbench remote remove origin" &&

git init --bare upstream &&
test_hook -C upstream --setup receive-report <<-EOF &&
tee raw
EOF

git -C workbench remote add origin ../upstream &&
git -C workbench push origin $A:refs/heads/main &&
git -C workbench push origin $B:refs/heads/main >out 2>&1 &&

make_user_friendly_and_stable_output <out >actual &&
cat >expect <<-EOF &&
To ../upstream
<COMMIT-A>..<COMMIT-B> <COMMIT-B> -> main
EOF
test_cmp expect actual &&

test-tool pkt-line unpack <upstream/raw >actual-report &&
cat >expect-report <<-EOF &&
unpack ok
ok refs/heads/main
0000
EOF
test_cmp expect-report actual-report
'

test_expect_success "hook can modify the report sent to client" '
test_when_finished "rm -rf upstream" &&
test_when_finished "git -C workbench remote remove origin" &&

git init --bare upstream &&
git -C workbench remote add origin ../upstream &&
git -C workbench push origin $A:refs/heads/main &&

test_hook -C upstream --setup receive-report <<-\EOF &&
test-tool pkt-line unpack |
sed "s/^ok /ng /" |
test-tool pkt-line pack
EOF

test_must_fail git -C workbench push origin $B:refs/heads/main >out 2>&1 &&
make_user_friendly_and_stable_output <out >actual &&
cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
To ../upstream
! [remote rejected] <COMMIT-B> -> main (failed)
EOF
test_cmp expect actual
'

test_expect_success "hook can report a custom failure message" '
test_when_finished "rm -rf upstream" &&
test_when_finished "git -C workbench remote remove origin" &&

git init --bare upstream &&
git -C workbench remote add origin ../upstream &&
git -C workbench push origin $A:refs/heads/main &&

test_hook -C upstream --setup receive-report <<-\EOF &&
echo "push rejected: service X is down" >&2
test-tool pkt-line unpack |
sed "s/^ok \(.*\)/ng \1 service-x-is-down/" |
test-tool pkt-line pack |
tee raw
EOF

test_must_fail git -C workbench push origin $B:refs/heads/main >out 2>&1 &&
test_grep "push rejected: service X is down" out &&

test-tool pkt-line unpack <upstream/raw >actual-report &&
cat >expect-report <<-\EOF &&
unpack ok
ng refs/heads/main service-x-is-down
0000
EOF
test_cmp expect-report actual-report
'

test_expect_success "hook stderr with zero exit status code" '
test_when_finished "rm -rf upstream" &&
test_when_finished "git -C workbench remote remove origin" &&

git init --bare upstream &&
git -C workbench remote add origin ../upstream &&
git -C workbench push origin $A:refs/heads/main &&

test_hook -C upstream --setup receive-report <<-\EOF &&
echo "push rejected: service X is down" >&2
tee raw
EOF

git -C workbench push origin $B:refs/heads/main >out 2>&1 &&
test_grep "push rejected: service X is down" out &&

test-tool pkt-line unpack <upstream/raw >actual-report &&
cat >expect-report <<-\EOF &&
unpack ok
ok refs/heads/main
0000
EOF
test_cmp expect-report actual-report
'

test_expect_success "hook stderr is relayed to client via sideband" '
test_when_finished "rm -rf upstream" &&
test_when_finished "git -C workbench remote remove origin" &&

git init --bare upstream &&
git -C workbench remote add origin ../upstream &&
git -C workbench push origin $A:refs/heads/main &&

test_hook -C upstream --setup receive-report <<-\EOF &&
echo "hook-stderr-message" >&2
exit 1
EOF

test_must_fail git -C workbench push origin $B:refs/heads/main >out 2>&1 &&
test_grep "remote: hook-stderr-message" out
'

test_done