Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:16:50PM -0400, Mark Plaksin wrote: > >> > $ cat <<EOF >.git/hooks/update >> > #!/bin/sh >> > GIT_INDEX_FILE=/path/to/tempdir/index; export GIT_INDEX_FILE >> > cd /path/to/tempdir/tree && >> > mkdir -p tree && >> > git read-tree "$3" && >> > git checkout-index && >> > your_syntax_check >> > EOF >> > $ chmod +x .git/hooks/update >> >> Thanks for helping! :) >> >> Unfortunately we don't quite get it. Can you flesh out your example a >> bit and explain the concepts involved? We're relative git newbies. We >> tried reading the man pages to the commands you use to no avail. One >> big stumbling block seems to be how we create/set-up tempdir. Is that >> supposed to be a pre-created git checkout, or created via git-archive, >> or .. ? > > What I was trying to say earlier is that you have two choices based on > how efficient you want to make it. The simple way is to use git-archive: OK, this makes sense now. Thanks for being patient with us :) > However, all of that being said, if you just want: > >> Also, we actually just want to check the syntax of the files that were >> changed in the commit, not the whole tree. Will your method give us >> access to the path names of the files that changed? > > That is simpler, especially if you can feed the files to your > syntax-checker over stdin. You just need to enumerate the files, and > then ask git to dump each one: ... > Make sense? It does! You make it seem so easy! Thanks very much. I now have an update hook which checks syntax just like we want. Thanks again! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html