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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hooks.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt | 8 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hooks.txt b/Documentation/hooks.txt index 7ee3571..4ad1920 100644 --- a/Documentation/hooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/hooks.txt @@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ Another use suggested on the mailing list is to use this hook to implement access control which is finer grained than the one based on filesystem group. +The standard output of this hook is sent to /dev/null; if you +want to report something to the git-send-pack on the other end, +you can redirect your output to your stderr. + post-update ----------- @@ -125,3 +129,7 @@ the outcome of `git-receive-pack`. The default post-update hook, when enabled, runs `git-update-server-info` to keep the information used by dumb transport up-to-date. + +The standard output of this hook is sent to /dev/null; if you +want to report something to the git-send-pack on the other end, +you can redirect your output to your stderr. diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt index ebd025d..02621b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The pages under http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ are built from Documentation/ directory of the git.git project and needed to be kept up-to-date. The www.kernel.org/ servers are mirrored and I was told that the origin of the mirror is on -the machine master.kernel.org, on which I was given an account +the machine $some.kernel.org, on which I was given an account when I took over git maintainership from Linus. The directories relevant to this how-to are these two: @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ like this: EOF $ chmod +x /pub/scm/git/git.git/hooks/post-update -There are three things worth mentioning: +There are four things worth mentioning: - The update-hook is run after the repository accepts a "git push", under my user privilege. It is given the full names @@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ There are three things worth mentioning: pull" it does into $HOME/doc-git/docgen/ repository would not work correctly. + - The stdout of update hook script is not connected to git + push; I run the heavy part of the command inside "at", to + receive the execution report via e-mail. + - This is still crude and does not protect against simultaneous make invocations stomping on each other. I would need to add some locking mechanism for this. |