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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.

However, there is no guarantee for future implementations.