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On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:33 AM, James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> Hi,
>
> I have a post-receive hook (bash script) that launches several backgr=
ound
> processes and exits immediately. =C2=A0I do that so I don't have to w=
ait for the
> background processes to finish every time I push to the repository, b=
ut Git
> seems to wait for them to finish anyways, even though the post-receiv=
e hook
> itself already exited. =C2=A0Is there any way to stop Git from waitin=
g and let the
> push finish immediately? =C2=A0Sorry if I'm missing something obvious=
=2E..

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

  ( ( long-running-command & ) )

What Junio said may be the only alternative...