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James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a post-receive hook (bash script) that launches several background
> processes and exits immediately.  I do that so I don't have to wait for the
> background processes to finish every time I push to the repository, but Git
> seems to wait for them to finish anyways, even though the post-receive hook
> itself already exited.  Is there any way to stop Git from waiting and let the
> push finish immediately?

An easy way to do that is to run whatever lengthy process you do not want
to wait for using

	echo "that command" | at now

in the hook ;-).