Re: Git push failure with update hook success

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
> Since it just gets the ref name, would one (of sufficient skill) be
> able to reconstruct the same sort of report that the "pre" update hook
> does?  That is, from the ref name can I get the old SHA-1?  If I try
> to write this, what I think I would like to do is just call the
> existing update hook from the post-update hook, with the post update
> hook figuring out the proper arguments to pass along.

For what its worth, the receive-pack patch series that I posted a
few hours ago creates a new post-receive hook that would be suitable
for generating the report you are looking for.

-- 
Shawn.