On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:12:11AM +0200, Yaron Wittenstein wrote: > Is there any possible way to track changes to HEAD using hooks? > > Being able to listen using hooks to events such as pre-head-checkout > and post-head-checkout would be the best option (from my perspective). > > To my knowledge, the only possible way to do that today is by adding a > file watch over the refs directory. No, I don't think there is currently a better way. If you do go the file watch route, make sure you put one on HEAD, too (to catch the case of checking out a different branch, as opposed to updating it with a new commit). I use: gitdir=$(git rev-parse --git-dir) # We need delete_self to pick up changes to HEAD (since it gets renamed # over), and "move" to pick up changes in the refs directories. inotifywait -qq -t 60 -e delete_self -e move -r "$gitdir/HEAD" "$gitdir/refs" in a script that I use for automatically running tests against the current commit. (if you are doing something similar, I also recommend https://github.com/mhagger/git-test for avoiding re-running against the same commits repeatedly). -Peff
