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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
To: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Cc: Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Background processes in post-receive hook
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 08:52:50 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTin4-fMhi_5H1oZ+gPB99stj5GRjVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinrEt6DkwhknpDZ0iV9PR+7bBd3DAaPRJOgNFTG@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:33 AM, James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?  Sorry if I'm missing something obvious...

interestingly, the double fork trick doesn't work either...

  ( ( long-running-command & ) )

What Junio said may be the only alternative...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-03  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-02 23:03 Background processes in post-receive hook James Pickens
2011-04-03  0:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-03  3:22 ` Sitaram Chamarty [this message]
2011-04-03  4:59   ` Joe Ratterman
2011-04-03  5:06   ` Jonathan Nieder

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