Stefan Monnier <monnier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I have a system here where it can be quite common to have thousands of
> branches in the remote repository, and where I'd like to update some
> local state according to the appearance of new branches (or updates of
> pre-existing ones).
>
> Currently, I use a "git for-each-ref" after pulling and then check (for
> each one of those refs) if an update is warranted, but this can get slow
> with that many branches. Is there some way to get something like the
> post-receive hook to be run for "git pull", so that the script gets told
> directly which (remote tracking) branches have been modified/created?
I do not think there is. But you could easily script along the
lines of...
#!/bin/sh
git for-each-ref | sort >prestate
git pull "$@"
git for-each-ref | sort >poststate
comm -12 prestate poststate
... or something like that, no?
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