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From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: What is the working directory for post-update hook?
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:58:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602051058.26570.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd5i2kuqi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:41, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:
> > The document root of my website has a git repository under it (in the
> > standard .git subdirectory) and want a post update hook to checkout the
> > contents (so the web server sees it!)
> >
> > I will be pushing to it via ssh.
> >
> > Does this mean that the post-update hook with be run with a working
> > directory of the web site's document root? or something relative (such as
> > GIT_DIR) so that I don't have to do a specific cd to an absolute path.
>
> The current implementation happens to chdir to GIT_DIR and sets
> GIT_DIR=. in the environment, so if you have something like
> this:
>
> 	/var/www/myproject/
> 	/var/www/myproject/.git/
> 	/var/www/myproject/.git/HEAD
> 	/var/www/myproject/.git/...
>         /var/www/myproject/README
>
> Then $(pwd) would be /var/www/myproject/.git/.  Your hook would
> probably be able to do "cd .."  to get to the project top.
>

I did get it to work doing a cd .. - although you also have to unset GIT_DIR, 
because its is literally "." and not the directory that was "." at the time 
of setting, so a cd .. ; checkout -f then fails with an invalid repository.

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-02-05 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-05  9:06 What is the working directory for post-update hook? Alan Chandler
2006-02-05  9:37 ` Alan Chandler
2006-02-05  9:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-05 10:58   ` Alan Chandler [this message]

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