Apologies for the delay in reply! I tried your suggestion and it works. Thanks! :) I'm curious why integer comparison is throwing error. Shouldn't i be comparing numbers with numeric operator? On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Gaurav Chhabra <varuag.chhabra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Apologies for the delay in reply! I tried your suggestion and it works. > Thanks! :) > > I'm curious why integer comparison is throwing error. Shouldn't i be > comparing numbers with numeric operator? > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Gaurav Chhabra <varuag.chhabra@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > I had written the following code to check whether a push is for branch >> > deletion: >> > >> > #!/bin/bash >> > >> > NULL="0000000000000000000000000000000000000000" >> > if [[ "$new_sha" -eq "$NULL" ]]; then # Line 17 >> > remote: Stdin: [0000000000000000000000000000000000000000] >> > [9226289d2416af4cb7365d7aaa5e382bdb3d9a89] [refs/heads/rel-a] >> > remote: >> > remote: hooks/pre-receive: line 17: [[: >> > 9226289d2416af4cb7365d7aaa5e382bdb3d9a89: value too great for base >> > (error token is "922628 >> > 9d2416af4cb7365d7aaa5e382bdb3d9a89") >> > >> > Although the new branch gets pushed to remote but i'm not sure why i'm >> > getting this error and how can i fix it. I checked online and i get >> > few links where folks had similar issue but in each such case, the >> > error token was 08 or 09. I still tried the suggestion of using "10#" >> > in front of my $new_sha variable but to no avail. >> > >> > Any suggestions? >> >> Yes, try using the string comparison '=' operator rather than the >> numeric comparison operator '-eq'. >> >> if [[ "$new_sha" = "$NULL" ]]; then > > -- 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