We have a pre-receive hook that checks for JIRA ID whenever someone pushes code to Git server. I'm trying to avoid this check when someone is applying a tag. Here's the link for the script: http://pastebin.com/VnMQp5ar This is the link for output: http://pastebin.com/tBGmYaZF Problem is that if i run the following command, the output that i get on command line is 0 git describe --exact-match ac28ca721e67adc04078786164939989a5112d98 2>&1 | grep -o fatal | wc -w So i'm wondering why it's not entering the IF block (as confirmed in the output link) I agree this is a bad implementation (and i will change it soon) for checking tags and can be easily done by just checking whether $refname starts with refs/tags/ but i'll really appreciate if someone could tell me the mistake i'm committing. I've spent few hours banging my head on this. -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Git-tag-pre-receive-hook-issue-tp7635764.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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