>> 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
Right, it kinda works, but it can break down in case of
concurrent operations.
I really wish there was a way to get something like the post-receive
hook to be called everytime new commits are added, regardless if it's
due to a push, a pull, a commit, a fast-import, ...
Stefan
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