From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Chandler Subject: Re: What is the working directory for post-update hook? Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:58:26 +0000 Message-ID: <200602051058.26570.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> References: <200602050906.52016.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> <7vd5i2kuqi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 05 11:58:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5hbM-0006XX-58 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:58:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751701AbWBEK6X (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 05:58:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751691AbWBEK6X (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 05:58:23 -0500 Received: from 82-44-22-127.cable.ubr06.croy.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.44.22.127]:7364 "EHLO home.chandlerfamily.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751449AbWBEK6X (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 05:58:23 -0500 Received: from kanger.home ([192.168.0.21]) by home.chandlerfamily.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1F5hb4-00019H-BW; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:58:22 +0000 To: git@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <7vd5i2kuqi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:41, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Alan Chandler 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.