On 12/10/2011 11:29 AM, Hao wrote: > I am writing a post-receive hook in Python that examines the content of some > files (the HEAD rev). Because the repo is a bare one on the server. My current > approach is to check out a working copy on the server and run 'git pull' in post- > receive to get the most up-to-date version, and then process files in the > working copy. You could do something like this as a post-receive hook: #!/bin/sh test_dir=$(mktemp -d /tmp/test.XXXXXXXXXX) GIT_WORK_TREE=$test_dir git checkout -f /usr/local/bin/check.py $test_dir rm -rf $test_dir -- 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