Minor fixup to documentation of hooks in git-receive-pack.
Small additional changes to the cbb84e5d17
commit, which introduced documentation to pre-receive and post-receive:
- Mention that stdout and stderr are equivalent.
- Add one cross-section link and fix one other.
- Fix information on advantages of post-receive over post-update.
Signed-off-by: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ If the hook exits with non-zero status, none of the refs will be
@@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ If the hook exits with non-zero status, none of the refs will be
updated. If the hook exits with zero, updating of individual refs can
still be prevented by the <<update,'update'>> hook.
If you want to report something to the `git-send-pack` on the other end,
you can simply `echo` your messages.
Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to
`git-send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages
for the user.
[[update]]
update
@ -153,9 +154,9 @@ Another use suggested on the mailing list is to use this hook to
@@ -153,9 +154,9 @@ Another use suggested on the mailing list is to use this hook to
implement access control which is finer grained than the one
based on filesystem group.
The standard output of this hook is sent to `stderr`, so if you
want to report something to the `git-send-pack` on the other end,
you can simply `echo` your messages.
Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to
`git-send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages
@ -171,17 +172,20 @@ It executes on the remote repository once after all the refs have
@@ -171,17 +172,20 @@ It executes on the remote repository once after all the refs have
been updated.
This hook executes once for the receive operation. It takes no
arguments, but gets the same information as the `pre-receive`
arguments, but gets the same information as the
<<pre-receive,'pre-receive'>>
hook does on its standard input.
This hook does not affect the outcome of `git-receive-pack`, as it
is called after the real work is done.
This supersedes the [[post-update]] hook in that it actually get's
both old and new values of all the refs.
This supersedes the <<post-update,'post-update'>> hook in that it get's
both old and new values of all the refs in addition to their
names.
If you want to report something to the `git-send-pack` on the
other end, you can simply `echo` your messages.
Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to
`git-send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages
for the user.
The default 'post-receive' hook is empty, but there is
a sample script `post-receive-email` provided in the `contrib/hooks`
@ -205,12 +209,10 @@ the outcome of `git-receive-pack`.
@@ -205,12 +209,10 @@ the outcome of `git-receive-pack`.
The 'post-update' hook can tell what are the heads that were pushed,
but it does not know what their original and updated values are,
so it is a poor place to do log old..new.
In general, `post-receive` hook is preferred when the hook needs
to decide its acion on the status of the entire set of refs
being updated, as this hook is called once per ref, with
information only on a single ref at a time.
so it is a poor place to do log old..new. The
<<post-receive,'post-receive'>> hook does get both original and
updated values of the refs. You might consider it instead if you need
them.
When enabled, the default 'post-update' hook runs
`git-update-server-info` to keep the information used by dumb
@ -219,4 +221,5 @@ a git repository that is accessible via HTTP, you should
@@ -219,4 +221,5 @@ a git repository that is accessible via HTTP, you should
probably enable this hook.
Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to
`git-send-pack` on the other end.
`git-send-pack` on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages