Stephen Morton <stephen.c.morton@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The sample pre-push hook provided with git [1] will crash if the local > repo is not up to date with the remote as $remote_sha is not present > in the local repo. I'm not sure if this patch is exactly correct, it's > just provided as an example. > > Given that people are likely crafting their own solutions based on the > examples, it's probably good to get right. It's probably good to get right, but I do not think use of @{u} is making it right, unfortunately. You may not necessarily have @{u} configured, and you may not even pushing to the configured remote branch. The spirit of the sample hook, I think, is to validate the new commits you are publishing, so if you cannot even determine which ones are new and which ones are not, failing the "push" by exiting with non-zero status is the right behaviour for this sample. So perhaps something like this may be more appropriate as an example. templates/hooks--pre-push.sample | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/templates/hooks--pre-push.sample b/templates/hooks--pre-push.sample index 6187dbf..7ef6780 100755 --- a/templates/hooks--pre-push.sample +++ b/templates/hooks--pre-push.sample @@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ do fi # Check for WIP commit - commit=`git rev-list -n 1 --grep '^WIP' "$range"` + commit=`git rev-list -n 1 --grep '^WIP' "$range"` || { + # we do not even know about the range... + echo >&2 "Non-ff update to $remote_ref" + echo >&2 "fetch from there first" + exit 1 + } if [ -n "$commit" ] then echo >&2 "Found WIP commit in $local_ref, not pushing" -- 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