That is interesting, so in the case of a non-ff push, there is no way for a pre-push hook to know what is being pushed in order to run? Steve On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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